"You're writing for some version of yourself. You're writing the kinds of things that you like to read or wanted to read at a certain point. So, primarily for most of my career, I've written the kind of criticism that fascinates me. The things I discovered the things that get me going, that I'm excited about."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Gary Giddins

#Writing Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Kind Quotes

“You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.”
“Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.”
“People come to see the players. Nobody ever bought a ticket to see a manager.”
“Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.”
“If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.”
“Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.”
“Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!”
“For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.”

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