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“My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.”
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“Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.”
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“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions,”
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“Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across. Good writing is more subversive I think - or good scenes. They are about one thing on the page but you can make it about something completely different.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.”
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“You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves Or fools that use them, when they want good sense; But honesty Needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain.”
Source : William Congreve, James Miller, Henry Fielding, David Garrick, Thomas Southern (1815). “The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy”
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“People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.”
Source : Daniel Keyes (2004). “Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody.”
Source : Myron Schwartzman, Romare Bearden (1990). “Romare Bearden, his life & art”, Harry N. Abrams
