"But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it."

-- T.C. Boyle

#Writing Quotes #Journey Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every now and then I'd be in this science fiction blockbuster that would re-introduce the character and me to a lot of audiences around the world and allow me to go back and do the smaller films again, so it was really a good balance for me.”
“There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.”

Source : Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.424, LSU Press
“A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution.”
“They are most welcome. We will butcher them.”
“What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.”

Source : Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.340
“I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.”
“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.”
“Whatever the reasons that I turn things down, I'm always happy when there's a good result, and I can enjoy it as a movie, you know? I don't feel like, 'Oh man, that was really good. I should have done it.' You have to make the decisions you have to make, whether it has to do with your family or repeating a character or whatever it is.”

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