I love quotes as well, and I don't think I save enough of them.
The latest one I noted was Mark Strand: "Most of our experience is that of being a witness. We see and hear and smell other things. I think being alive is responding."
And Lorin Stein: "More than ever, we need writers who are unprofessional, whose private worlds come first."
Márquez: "What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it." I tend to think of that when I'm looking at character perceptions and truth vs fact (a consideration I picked up from The Things They Carried, incidentally).
Then there are the ones stuck to the wall above my desk.
Doctorow, which will always have a spot above my desk: "Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
A little newspaper clipping of an interview with Helen Mirren: "And then maybe (I've) got a project coming up, and I get really nervous because I think, 'I can't do that.' Then, of course, you start and you realize, 'Oh yes, I can. This is what I do. This is my job.'"
Jane Austen: "I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am."
For whatever reason, the quote from Dune: "God created Arrakis to train the faithful." The sound and rhythm of that sentence always strikes me.
Of Monsters and Men lyrics that saved me when I was first getting my life back in order and starting to write this book: "There's an old voice in my head that's holding me back / Well, tell her that I miss our little talks.
And then I always appreciate quotes that connect to my specific work, so I have Longfellow up there - no words can better capture my character: "And when she was good, she was very, very good / But when she was bad, she was horrid."
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The latest one I noted was Mark Strand: "Most of our experience is that of being a witness. We see and hear and smell other things. I think being alive is responding."
And Lorin Stein: "More than ever, we need writers who are unprofessional, whose private worlds come first."
Márquez: "What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it." I tend to think of that when I'm looking at character perceptions and truth vs fact (a consideration I picked up from The Things They Carried, incidentally).
Then there are the ones stuck to the wall above my desk.
Doctorow, which will always have a spot above my desk: "Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
A little newspaper clipping of an interview with Helen Mirren: "And then maybe (I've) got a project coming up, and I get really nervous because I think, 'I can't do that.' Then, of course, you start and you realize, 'Oh yes, I can. This is what I do. This is my job.'"
Jane Austen: "I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am."
For whatever reason, the quote from Dune: "God created Arrakis to train the faithful." The sound and rhythm of that sentence always strikes me.
Of Monsters and Men lyrics that saved me when I was first getting my life back in order and starting to write this book: "There's an old voice in my head that's holding me back / Well, tell her that I miss our little talks.
And then I always appreciate quotes that connect to my specific work, so I have Longfellow up there - no words can better capture my character: "And when she was good, she was very, very good / But when she was bad, she was horrid."