Mary Gaitskill Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs. – Mary Gaitskill Insects Quotes Leaves Quotes Life Quotes Mimic Quotes Stories Quotes Twigs Quotes If anything is scary about my writing, it’s that it’s the product of a very particular vision and doesn’t reference common speech that heavily. By ‘common speech,’ I don’t mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand. Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.
Graham Swift There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don’t take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it. – Graham Swift
Lewis Mumford The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. – Lewis Mumford
Nushrat Bharucha Nobody expects girls to do something smart or give one liners in a film. – Nushrat Bharucha
John Frankenheimer Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that’s continually trying to erode that. – John Frankenheimer
Andrew Neil I’m not arguing for a return to the grammar school system, but there must be a way of identifying bright kids from ordinary backgrounds and giving them a world-class education. – Andrew Neil
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