"To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature."

-- Gao Xingjian

#Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.”
“Kelsey Grammer is one of the best actors I've ever worked with.”
“I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.”
“I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that.”

Source : Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.197, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.”
“I work in an industry where everyone is flawlessly beautiful, but I just want to be healthy.”
“My greatest strength is that I have no weaknesses.”
“I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay away from polemics as best I could. I think that, if anything, Fobbit is my way of showing readers there's another side to war - the backstage of combat, if you will. If you play a word association game with Americans and say "war," what's the first thing that comes to mind? Soldiers running across a battlefield through a hail of bullets, right? Rambo, smoke, explosions. In Fobbit, I hope readers will see something a little different”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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