"I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee. It's like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French."

-- Colson Whitehead

#Coffee Quotes #Writing Quotes #Paris Quotes

“Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?”
“If each of us can learn to relate to each other more out of compassion, with a sense of connection to each other and a deep recognition of our common humanity, and more important, to teach this to our children, I believe that this can go a long way in reducing many of the conflicts and problems that we see today.”
“And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.”
“Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.”
“If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.”
“On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.”
“Hating hard work can get to be such an obsession that you won't let it pile up.”
“But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.”

Source : Nassau William Senior (1858). “Political Economy”, p.4

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