"My standards are higher than they used to be, I think. They don't necessarily have to make sense, but I certainly work on them a lot harder now -- partly because I do them on the computer, and I print them out and fix them, and print them and fix them over and over again, whereas in the early days I used to just scratch down a few things on a piece of paper."

-- Dean Wareham

#Thinking Quotes #Scratches Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Sometimes, everyone is right. Not always and not even usually, but once in a while, everyone is right.”

Source : Cherie Priest (2012). “Boneshaker”, p.41, Pan Macmillan
“You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone's yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. The tree knew. It came there first. Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to air and the Tree of Heaven flourished. That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.”
“If you don't have any haters, you're not that gifted.”
“The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate”
“The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.”
“The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.”

Source : John Lanchester (2010). “I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
“To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.”
“Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?”

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