"The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter, at least for a while, to see what the world looks like from outside it."

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Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

Garth Greenwell

#Thinking Quotes #Important Quotes #Looks Quotes

“It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall with a book that's just not happening. The next book you write could be the book, the one that isn't a fight to get representation for at all.”
“If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.”
“Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.”

Source : Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.297, Holt Paperbacks
“Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery--which is part of its splendour.”

Source : Thomas Dubay (1999). “The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet”, p.42, Ignatius Press
“In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.”

Source : Letter to Vladimir Stassov on October 18, 1872. "Moussorgsky". Book by Oskar von Riesemann, translated by Paul England, p. 107, 1929.
“Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.”
“And the associated danger for the identity of Europe cannot be ignored out of a wrongly understood sense of respect... The Catholic side sees this clearly and says as much.”

Source : "A ‘Christian’ Europe Without Christianity" By David Gibson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2011.
“Find the one thing youâ€™re good at and FOCUS on it.”

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