"Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy - it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is."

-- Zadie Smith

#Writing Quotes #Voice Quotes #People Quotes

“There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far allow to state, as I said before, that the great regions of the mind correspond to the great regions of the brain.”
“There is no right way to do a wrong thing.”
“The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.”

Source : Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.63, Arcade Publishing
“When you write a song, a song has longevity”
“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.”
“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.”
“I've always loved to sing with somewhat vague lyrics so people can have their own interpretation and find their own meaning with it. I've become a bit more comfortable speaking about personal matters within the lyrics, but at the same time, there is an element where I'm not always sure how far I want to take it. There are certain topics that I'm discussing that I haven't explicitly explained to my bandmates. That's just for me to know, and I'm not going to talk about it anywhere.”

Source : "How Grizzly Bear created their most accessible album to date". Interview with Robin Pecknold, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2017.
“To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.”

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