"When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right."

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David E. Kelley

#Scratches Quotes #Stories Quotes #Claws Quotes

“The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.”
“Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas.”
“By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.”
“Wrinkles are ditches that the gods have dug for our tears.”
“If you don't plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't begin; for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of citizenship, a change of governments, a change of allegience. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; it's not for you.”

Source : Kay Arthur (2004). “God, How Can I Live?”, Harvest House Pub
“The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.”

Source : Source: slushpile.net
“I visited a friend in Leicester recently. It was 4am and we all ran around in a circle, six of us. Itâ€™s the most fun Iâ€™ve had since i was seven. And I thought: itâ€™s not about drink, or drugs, or fancy clubs. Itâ€™s about running around in your socks, changing direction in a front room in Leicester.”
“Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.”

Source : John Major (2013). “John Major: The Autobiography”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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