Everyday occurrences Quotes

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.

I believe that miracles happen every day.

Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.

The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day, that week ... I write stories the same way. Events at home, in school, at work, in the street, these are the bases for a story. Some experiences leave such a deep impression that instead of talking about them at the club I work them into a novel.

I am interested in the non-dramatic moments in life. I'm not at all attracted to making films that are about drama. A few years back, I saw a biopic about a famous American abstract expressionist artist. And you know what? It really horrified me.

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.