"A habit does not a monk make."

-- Francois Rabelais

#Doe Quotes #Monk Quotes #Habit Quotes

“To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.”
“Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.”

Source : Nathanael West (2012). “The Dream Life of Balso Snell”, p.14, Courier Corporation
“I don't think every joke has to be so dadgum cerebral. I mix it up really good, because that's the kind of humor I like. I like the goofy one-liner type stuff.”
“If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.”
“We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.”
“What's bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.”
“So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having. Where I would usually backspace, I stop and say, "You know what? This is important, that I say how I feel and don't sugarcoat it, and don't avoid it." In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.”

Source : "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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