"The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer."

-- Ken Bruen

#Book Quotes #Paper Quotes #Praise Quotes

“Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.”
“Inspiration must find answering inspiration.”
“I want to be the best fighter. I would like to fight in the biggest fights.”
“It was a dark and stormy night.”
“Taking good pictures is easy. Making very good pictures is difficult. Making great pictures is almost impossible”
“A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.”
“I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.”
“In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters--all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.”

Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.287

You may also like:

Adrian McKinty
Novelist
Craig McDonald
Author
George Pelecanos
Author
Iain Glen
Film actor
Jeffery Deaver
Crime writer
Lawrence Block
Writer
Megan Abbott
Author
Stuart Neville
Author
William Monahan
Screenwriter