"Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?"

-- Connie Willis

#Cat Quotes #Writing Quotes #Conceited Quotes

“Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on, it's accompanied by a whole host of other feelings.”
“Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.”

Source : "Terms of Crisis" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2014.
“There are tons of people Id like to freeze for all of eternity, but we wont go into that!”
“Early on I was just a kid in a cowboy hat with a bunch of other guys in a room that were putting out some records. Now thank God, in the past 3 or 4 years, when.. it's really hard to burn an image of a face with a song these days. I think that the songs like 'Don't Happen Twice' and 'Young' were songs that helped me do that and I think that 'I Go Back'(did) that even more.”
“Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.”
“The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.”
“I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.”
“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”

Source : Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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