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“Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression.”
Source : "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". SRB interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009. 
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“If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.”
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“It would have been nice if both players had maybe shaken hands with each other”
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“My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ... very large white pillows.”
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“Intuition is just the sum of all your experience. The way I see it, everything you’ve experienced, everything you know, you think you know and didn’t know you knew is there in your subconscious lying dormant, as it were. As a rule you don’t notice the sleeping creature, it’s just there, snoring and absorbing new things, right. But now and then it blinks, stretches and tells you, hey, I’ve seen this picture before. And tells you where in the picture things belong.”
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“Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.”
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“Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
Source : Sarah J. Maas (2012). “Throne of Glass”, p.51, A&C Black
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“I've seen a tremendous shift especially in indie comics. I see all these young women who are out there creating. They're making these great web comics. Their graphic novels are getting published. They're making all this wonderful art. They're powerful. There's this vital energy about it that's really, really beautiful that years ago I knew existed but I didn't see so clearly.”
Source : Source: www.omnivoracious.com
