"I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books."

-- Cynthia Rylant

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.”
“That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual.”
“Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and gall. And you have to love to read books, all kinds of books, good books. You are not looking for anything in particular; you are just letting stuff seep in.”

Source : "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.
“I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.”
“In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang”
“She'll really tell me [what she thinks]. Like today I'm wearing brown suede pants, and she said, 'I don't like your pants.' But then she'll say, `You've got to wear these shoes.' Or 'That's so pretty, Mom. Wear that.' She's got a great eye.”

Source : "Tom Cruise Says He’s Not Pressuring Suri To Get Into Acting". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.
“Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.”

Source : Keith F. Davis, Nancy Barrett, John H. Lawrence, Clarence John Laughlin (1990). “Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer”, Hallmark Card Inc
“People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another.”

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