"My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me and gave me good notes. But the best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life."

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Source : Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.

Anthony

#Writing Quotes #Boss Quotes #Dinner Quotes

“Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.”

Source : Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”
“Coincidences are glimpses in to the creative mind of the universe.”
“A too-swift and easy coalition victory may substantially increase the risk of future wars.”

Source : "War's biggest puzzle will only be solved when Baghdad falls". www.smh.com.au. April 7, 2003.
“I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.”
“I see so many people who don't want to try, and I say 'I don't care what I ever do, I never give up at anything anymore.' I don't care what it is, you'll never see me give up.”
“And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.”
“As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.”
“The mind creates with thoughts and logic, but it sees with light. The heart creates with the emotions and feelings and dreaming, but it sees with darkness.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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