"Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone."

-- Rebecca Solnit

#Book Quotes #Intimate Quotes #Reader Quotes

“I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.”

Source : "Drinking Beer and Playing Pinball with The Newsroom's John Gallagher Jr". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. July 12, 2013.
“Until suitable alternatives are found, this vital work should continue so that hundreds of millions more lives can be saved in the future”
“For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of ethnic music studies and other things, like electronic music. Making homemade musical instruments and performing was my major activity from the time.”
“High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.”
“Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.”
“Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.”
“Writers are always selling somebody out.”
“[My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and Michelle [Obama].”

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