"I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books."

-- Vikram Seth

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Space Quotes

“Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.”
“In the electoral campaign, President Bush named as the most important person in his life Jesus . Now he has a unique chance to prove that he meant it seriously: for him, as for all Americans today, "Love thy neighbor!" means "Love the Muslims!" OR IT MEANS NOTHING AT ALL.”
“I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.”
“But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.”
“When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.”
“An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.”
“Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like thisâ€”so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babiesâ€”they will pop out of trees.”
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

Source : "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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