"I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do."

-- Jo Nesbo

#Writing Quotes #Evil Quotes #Ambitious Quotes

“So many of us know what we are against, but not what we are for-what we disbelieve, not what we believe. A negative life easily becomes neutral and futile.”
“If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.”
“Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.”

Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.237, Broadview Press
“The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.”
“Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.”
“Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.”
“Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.”
“I decided to be what crime made of me,”

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