"I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit"

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Source : "A Conversation with Edmond White By Edmond White". www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1996.

Edmund White

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.”
“My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).”
“Government is best which governs least”
“As long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train,'”

Source : "Don Cornelius is a businessman with soul", www.today.com. March 9, 2006.
“I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.”

Source : Interview with Pär Winberg, www.melodic.net. March 1999.
“Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.”
“If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. The place I am always looking for-because in order to keep the business I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values-is the place where I make something that could almost-but not quite-be understood by everyone.”
“The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.”

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