"I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel."

-- Ernest Gaines

#New York Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.”
“The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.”

Source : Craig Johnson (2013). “The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set”, p.446, Penguin
“The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.”
“Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.”
“Think about food on a full stomach and you find you don't care about taste. Think of lust after making love, and you find you don't care about sex. Therefore, if people always reflect on the regret they will feel afterward to forestall folly at the moment, they will be stable and will not err in action.”
“Looking good is important. We're our own premium brand as professional athletes, so you want to be thoughtful about presentation and represent yourself and your city and sport as best you can.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge of an art or science, of which they understood nothing till their brief was delivered, and appear to be much masters of it.”
“You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.”

You may also like:

Alice Walker
Author
Cicely Tyson
Actress
Don Cheadle
Actor
James A. Baldwin
Novelist
Kaye Gibbons
Novelist
Ralph Ellison
Novelist
Romulus Linney
Playwright
Ted Demme
Film director
Zora Neale Hurston
Anthropologist