"I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about."

--

Hubert Selby, Jr.

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #I Realized Quotes

“What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!”
“I had been at the director's workshop for women at the AFI, which at the time was a great thing to do. I had always meant to direct, and for a variety of reasons that are hard to explain, I never did. I produced many things - there'll be people who tell you I directed through them - and of course I wrote. It took a divorce, a move back to New York and a kind of "now I can do anything" to say, "I really want to do this."”
“The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.”
“As soon as you start talking about Scouting, there's an immediate connection and brotherhood.”
“A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.”
“Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"”
“If you're gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.”

Source : Song: Drive Me to Drink, Album: Walls Can Fall, 1992
“There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.”

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