"What is an adult? A child blown up by age."

-- Simone de Beauvoir

#Birthday Quotes #Time Quotes #Children Quotes

“I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending the story where the story's asking to end, they draw it out, unable to let go.”

Source : Source: slushpile.net
“When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.”
“The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.”
“What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (2007). “The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight”, p.387, Macmillan
“If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.”
“A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.”
“At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.”
“I am haunted by humans.”

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