"Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent. It probably takes me longer to write things, but it's very important to me that the writing itself be good."

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Source : Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. February 29, 2008.

Shelby Steele

#Nice Quotes #Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Responsibility and Trust -- these two are like Yin and Yang, together perfectly complete, and each one requiring the presence of the other. The next time you mistrust someone, consider this -- does that person feel responsible for you in any way? If the answer is yes, then go ahead and trust them. Very likely, they are looking out for your best interest.”
“Itâ€™s lovely,â€ I said, taking an involuntary half step back. â€œReally, though. I donâ€™t like to handle other peopleâ€™s cookware.â€ â€œThatâ€™s the best you can manage? Thatâ€™s your bright, bold lie?â€ â€œLook, lady, I donâ€™t know about you, but Iâ€™ve never had somebody corner me on a dark street and try to hand me a frying pan before,â€ I snapped.”
“So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.”
“Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours”

Source : William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon
“It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.”
“A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.”
“The sun in on the harbor, love, And I wish I could remain, For I know it will be some long, long time, Before I see you again.”

Source : L. A. Meyer (2010). “The Wake of the Lorelei Lee: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, on Her Way to Botany Bay”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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