"There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves."

-- Clifton Fadiman

#Writing Quotes #Two Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I don’t know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.”
“I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.”

Source : "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.
“I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.”

Source : “Larry Bird: What I've Learned” by Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. January 6, 2009.
“Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.”
“Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.”
“I didn't experience the negative side of [Adolf] Hitler. My sister [Eva Braun] did, that's a big distinction.”
“I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.”
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.”

You may also like:

Anne Fadiman
Author
David G. Hartwell
Editor
Franklin P. Adams
Columnist
James Fadiman
Writer
John F. Kieran
Author
Karen Russell
Novelist
Mortimer Adler
Philosopher
Nicholas A. Basbanes
Author
Simone Weil
Philosopher