"Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears."

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Source : Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.181, A&C Black

Niall Williams

#Rivers Quotes #Over You Quotes #Ears Quotes

“Play the game with a smile.”
“It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That approach in European institutions of higher learning was appealing to professors because it was democratic. But those institutions also suffered because they lacked an executive decision-making process; making changes became virtually impossible.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.”
“I start off with the obvious, that it makes no sense either to believe or to disbelieve in God until a substantial and intelligent definition or concept should be offered. Belief or disbelief is a secondary consideration, contingent on the intelligibility and cogency of the premise; the primal unintelligence or irrationality of moderns is revealed by their eagerness to leap to a conclusion without ever being curious what the hell the original premise was.”
“I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.”

Source : "James Herbert on his daily routine, writing The Rats and how he hates violence". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 12, 2012.
“I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.”

Source : Yusef Komunyakaa (1992). “Magic City”, p.24, Wesleyan University Press
“It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music”
“Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.”

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