"Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say."

-- Mark Z. Danielewski

#Mistake Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.”
“This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.”
“How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.”

Source : Peter F. Hamilton (2009). “Pandora's Star”, p.271, Pan Macmillan
“Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.”
“I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.”
“The only woman I'd ever wanna marry just broke my heart..”

Source : Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster”, p.201, Simon and Schuster
“All men are our brothers. As far as the discovery of the truth is concerned, they are all working for the same purpose; they may be separated by the accidents of space and time, and by the exigencies of race, religion, nationality, and other groupings; from the point of view of eternity they are working together.”

Source : George Sarton (1993). “Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.”, p.10, Courier Corporation
“What keeps my flame burning is, first, I'm ornery and persistent. I don't like giving up on things and I believe in my band and I just happen to have the sort of personality that really likes to see things to the bitter end. The second reason is the incredible people I've been fortunate to meet as a result of pursuing this insane, money-hemorrhaging enterprise. Literally every time I release a well-reviewed, poor-selling record, the net result is that I end up meeting more kind, like-minded, creative and brilliant people. That's really all the reward I need.”

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