"When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round."

-- Sally Lloyd-Jones

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ego Quotes

“I don`t want to dress up a picture with just my face.”
“There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.”
“Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.”
“Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.”
“If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.”
“One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.”
“The Dies tournament is always hard. We look forward to it every year from a competitive level. This is one of the biggest highlights of our season. This tournament has excellent tradition.”
“I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.”

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