"Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work."

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Source : "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

Hilton Als

#Flattering Quotes

“There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.”
“Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.”
“Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.”
“I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.”
“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
“I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person,not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.”

Source : Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.259, Crown
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.”

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