"I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay."

-- Sloane Crosley

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“I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.”

Source : "Here, Baby, Here! Amy Ryan on The Office and Win Win". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 18, 2011.
“I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in the lobby.”

Source : Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.32, Random House
“Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.”
“I have a phobia of spoons I haven't used one in about 10 years”
“Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.”
“I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.”

Source : Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”
“At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over her male colleagues?”

Source : "Texas Gov. Calls Special Session, Reigniting Abortion Debate". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.kuow.org. June 27, 2013.
“When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time... So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas... I don't worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.”

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