"Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read."

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Source : Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.24, Zondervan

Joyce Carol Oates

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“One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.”

Source : Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists”, p.159, Random House
“You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.”

Source : "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro, (p. 849), 1974.
“Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Richard Bellings (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, kt. in prose and verse: In three volumes. ...”
“It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.”
“I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?”
“I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.”
“How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to these low days of smiles that will never again be sly enough to hide the knowledge of betrayal and deceit.”

Source : Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.62, Heinemann
“I don't sit in my room and hide the whole time. I think people know my spirit is real.”

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