"The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Irrelevance Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Novelists Quotes

“I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky.”

Source : Interview with David Gralnik, collider.com. August 25, 2009.
“I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally putting in music or literally putting in a musical instrument, I use only a hint of the instrument, but the brocaded pattern is like a line of Bach because of its order and the leaves going up are like passages from Vivaldi, and the emphasis on drapery is where the sound comes...”
“I do everything the same, like nothing ever happened to me.”

Source : Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.
“Inductee in the Vintner's Hall of Fame”
“And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as. That was your nature, whether you liked it or not.”
“Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.”
“I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was training and I wanted to be in the Olympics. I thought I was going to be able to win a gold medal, and my mind was pretty much set on 'this is what I want to do'.”
“When you make music you do it for the right reason: love. Love is the desire of well being, desire to heal the wounded, the person in pain, the person who has problems - to touch the person who needs love. The love inside you manifests through sound, vibration and embraces everyone in the room.”

You may also like:

Ivy Compton-Burnett
Novelist
John Banville
Novelist
Quentin Blake
Cartoonist
Rosamond Lehmann
Novelist
Rose Macaulay
Writer
Sean O Faolain
Short story writer
Victoria Glendinning
Biographer
William Trevor
Novelist
Edna O'Brien
Novelist