"I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against writers like Barth and John Hawkes. I did not care for the post-modernist stuff; my allegiance was to realism."

-- Robert Stone

#Kids Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Care Quotes

“When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.”
“I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way”

Source : Blake Nelson (2011). “Recovery Road”, p.213, Scholastic Inc.
“It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.”
“I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.”
“Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.”
“To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.”
“If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!”
“Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.”

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