"In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality."

-- Will Self

#Fall Quotes #Style Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.”

Source : Linda Grant (1991). “Blind Trust”, Fawcett Books
“I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher doesn't like it, that's his privilege.”
“People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."”
“I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.”

Source : "Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. January 3, 2012.
“Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!”
“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”
“The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.”
“Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”

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