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Stuff Quotes - Page 17

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time... All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time... All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

"The Curiously Irresistible Literary Debut of Mark Haddon". PowellsBooks Interview, www.powells.com. October 10, 2006.

Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing.

"Kareem: 20 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Was 30". www.esquire.com. April 30, 2013.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

Jules Verne (1998). “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”, p.146, Oxford University Press, USA

I always say to myself when things get too hectic, "Don't sweat the small stuff!"

"Actress, Producer, Musician Josie Ho: Support from Family (and Puppies)". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.

"Jersey Devil". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. February 9, 2006.

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.344, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

Gore Vidal (2003). “Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta”, p.50, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.119, Workman Publishing