I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while … Continue reading QOTD
Category: Writing Inspiration
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I began to write, and the past lost some of it's power - I wrote it out of me. Graham Greene, A Sort of Life
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We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
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Today's quote from Tony Gilroy's masterful screenplay, Michael Clayton. This is the second half of Arthur Edens' voiceover monologue that opens the film. ARTHUR EDENS (V.O.) -- Two weeks ago I came out of the building -- I’m running across Sixth Avenue -- there’s a car waiting -- I have exactly thirty-eight minutes to get … Continue reading Monologue!
Be you
This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones. ― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people Thomas Mann
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, … Continue reading QOTD
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Feydeau’s one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don’t see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B. John Guare
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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. Phyllis Diller
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In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. Greek Proverb
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