"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Writing Quotes #Editors Quotes #Literature Quotes

“You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair... People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.”
“There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.”

Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Henry William Weber (1812). “The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes”
“I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.”
“When the night falls, my lonely heart calls.”
“There is something very unstabilizing about not knowing where you're coming from or where you're going. There's something very romantic about it, because you have this search for the unknown. But at the same time, sometimes I'm like, "God, if I were to die tomorrow, where would I like to be buried?" I wouldn't know. That's kind of a heavy thought, but it's a fact. You don't know anymore where you belong.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.”
“By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty.”

Source : Quoted in G. R. Gleig, The Life of Robert, First Lord Clive (1848)
“Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.”

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