"Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten percent of the work, often largely funding their operations - and their salaries - through grants that they don't even apply for. If it wasn't for publicly-funded arts bodies and organizations such as PEN, I wouldn't have been able to work on either [Abdellatif] LaÃ¢bi or [ Rashid ] Boudjedra."

-- Andre Naffis-Sahely

#Art Quotes #Organization Quotes #Risk Quotes

“The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun.”
“You may go a long time without winning, but you never forget that scent.”
“But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.”

Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.85, Simon and Schuster
“They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.”

Source : John Ford, Terence John Bew Spencer (1980). “The Broken Heart”, p.34, Manchester University Press
“I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding.”

Source : 1796 'The Hasty-Pudding', canto1
“I didn't really know X-Men at all before I started. So I'd heard of this comic but I didn't know it was as beloved or as iconic as I have now found out, but I just know fans are going to flip out at this.”
“I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.”
“Biological clock? I don't even own a watch.”

Source : Sarah Mlynowski (2012). “Milkrun”, p.162, Harlequin

You may also like:

Abdellatif Laabi
Poet
Peter Stamm
Writer