"He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page."

-- Robert Cormier

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Library Quotes

“Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.”
“I think I feel automatically at home in Italy”
“History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.”
“When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.”

Source : John le Carre (2004). “The Russia House: A Novel”, p.197, Simon and Schuster
“How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating.”
“Beside my obvious physical structure, I have been told on almost every set I've been on that I am a joy to have around. I grew up as a team player on team sports. Later as a doorman where you had to watch each other's back and trust the guy beside you.”
“I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.”
“In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth”

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