Carol Windley Quotes
Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story, I'm completely immersed in that world and in the lives of those characters; they're utterly real to me. Then, when I've completed the story, it all just falls away. The whole compulsion to understand is over.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I go back to St. Lucia, and the exhilaration I feel is not simply the exhilaration of homecoming and of nostalgia. It is almost an irritation of feeling: 'Well, you never got it right. Now you have another chance. Maybe you can try and look harder.'
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.
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If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.
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Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story, I'm completely immersed in that world and in the lives of those characters; they're utterly real to me. Then, when I've completed the story, it all just falls away. The whole compulsion to understand is over.
