"I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters."

-- Tim Blake Nelson

#Character Quotes #Writing Quotes #Oklahoma Quotes

“I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.”
“I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer.”
“There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.”
“I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.”
“Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment.”
“Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.”

Source : Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1872). “Poems”, p.83
“There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.”
“Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.”

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