"Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side â€” wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape."

-- Antonya Nelson

#Taken Quotes #Character Quotes #Landscape Quotes

“At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.”
“My biggest problem with President Bush is when we were in kindergarten together, he broke my favorite red crayon! Since that moment, my psychiatrist told me that I haven't been able to move forward as a person. Severely hindering the chances of me being able to mature any since that tragic day. For that, I'll never forgive him.”
“To the aircraft I aim, not the man.”
“I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.”
“I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."”
“I was very lucky to be offered a lovely piece of property to build a career on. I started building a house on it, but it wasn't necessarily a house I would want to live in. So I ripped down that house, and I worked with these great lumberjacks to build a really cool cabin-a place I want to drink whiskey in and hang out until the sun rises.”
“Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.”

Source : Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.285, Basic Books
“Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites.”

Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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