I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety.
Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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Oscar Wilde
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.
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Maya Angelou
Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why?- Isn't it gorgeous?
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Dave Eggers
More Quotes By James Lasdun
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’s no hope for us. We’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
