"You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels."

-- Tobias Wolff

#People Quotes #Stories Quotes #World Quotes

“A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights.”
“Kate Winslet [for Steve Jobs movie, 2015] is the darling. If you wanna be the king you gotta kill the king. I think Charlotte [Rampling] is the dark horse on this one. No one does classic beauty better than her.”
“My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by all those misfortunes. I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don't-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress.”

Source : James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”
“When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Daring to wear something different takes effort.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.”
“I write because it makes God happy that I write. I sing because it makes God happy that I sing. And if it makes God's people happy, then all the better. But if it fails to do so, it's probably my fault.”
“I don't ever feel a full transition to my character. I don't ever feel like I have left myself, because if I did, I would need professional medical attention. I always have to keep my own wits about me, or I would miss a mark on the floor, or be unable to follow the director's advice from the last take. However, when I'm at my best, I feel like I'm doing an impression of a person I've never met. It feels complete, and yet improvised.”

You may also like:

Anton Chekhov
Physician
David Foster Wallace
Novelist
Ernest Hemingway
Author
Geoffrey Wolff
Novelist
Joyce Carol Oates
Author
Lorrie Moore
Writer
Raymond Carver
Writer
Richard Ford
Novelist
Michael Caton-Jones
Film director