"Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more sure that the thinking particular to poetry is essential to my life. I need to think, to explore, to question, in poetry. Without that feeling, I am, in some ultimate way, lost."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Matthew Zapruder

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.”
“All love is lost but upon God alone.”

Source : 'The Merle and the Nightingale' st. 2
“Someone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.' 'Fascist,' Leon had said. 'Why are you so prejudiced against nerds?' 'Please,' Billy said. 'That would be a bit self-hating, wouldn't it?' 'Yeah, but you pass. You're like, you're in deep cover,' Leon said. 'You can sneak out of the nerd ghetto and hide the badge and bring back food and clothes and word of the outside world.”
“If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.”

Source : "Computers draw a new chapter in comics". Interview with Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2009.
“A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.”
“Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.”
“Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.”
“I still believe in a place called Hope, a place called America.”

Source : "A Place Called Hope". William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech to the 1992 Democratic National Convention accepting the Democratic nomination for President, July 16, 1992.

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