Source : "Subjects That Interest Most People". Interview with Amy Feltman, logger.believermag.com. July 20, 2015.
#Jobs Quotes #Writing Quotes
“A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?”
“What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.”
“Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.”
Source : 1979 Preface to reprint of The Horn.
“Then we started looking at story and what was making sense and what wasn't making sense, emotionally and thematically the intention that we had a year earlier when they were working on the script, did all that come across? It's all kind of generic things, but it's fascinating and it's weird - I haven't made that many films, but it's weird that every time you think you learn from your mistakes on your last film you have a slew of new mistakes and things that you learn.”
“Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.”
Source : Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Faking It”, p.325, Macmillan
“I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.”
“For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.”
“White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.”
Jonathan Franzen Novelist
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