"I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story collections as collections. That's not true of all story collections, to be honest, but for good ones I think it often is true."

-- Brian Evenson

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Stories Quotes

“If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.”
“The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.”
“Look what a little vain dust we are!”
“Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.”
“I didn't want to have to call a cab if I went to the supermarket. So I eventually got a bike, just a beach cruiser, and I rode that thing all over town. I rode it everywhere. I rode it in the rain, I rode it as much as I possibly could. Anytime I could afford the independence of the bike, I used the bike.”

Source : "Paul F. Tompkins on how and why he spent 25 years without a driver's license". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.
“Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.”
“Love, no matter how it's expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flawed. But that doesn't diminish it.”

Source : Erin McCarthy (2005). “The Pregnancy Test”, p.108, Kensington Books
“The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.”

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