"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."

-- Truman Capote

#Music Quotes #Writing Quotes #Light Quotes

“One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.”
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”
“Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.”

Source : Peter Porter (1992). “The chair of Babel”, Oxford University Press, USA
“I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.”
“Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.”
“When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.”
“Periodic fasts are necessary to flush out the poisons.”
“I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.”

Source : Alma Katsu (2012). “The Taker: Book One of the Taker Trilogy”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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