"This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper."

-- Peter Greenaway

#Writing Quotes #Paper Quotes #Pens Quotes

“My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.”

Source : "Robert B. Laughlin - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 1998.
“Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches.”

Source : Caroline Paul (2013). “Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology”, p.31, A&C Black
“The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”
“I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.”
“Changing your life does not always mean that you stop doing certain things. It may mean that you start doing certain other things. What you really want to do is nurture the attitude that you are open to learning more about yourself. Accepting more about yourself. This is what will inspire you to do something new.”
“No matter where I go, I'm still holding up a mirror.”
“Boko Haram will soon know the strength of our collective will”

Source : "Nigerian election winner vows to crush Boko Haram insurgency" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2015.
“In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.168, Counterpoint Press

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