"I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting."

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Clive James

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.”
“it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.”
“We have seen a growing mismatch between the command of media communication shown by the most talented politicians, and the halting, uneven progress which they can deliver through the machinery of government.”

Source : Tom Bentley (2001). “It's Democracy, Stupid: An Agenda for Self-government”, p.6, Demos
“The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.”
“Recalling what our lives were like before Jesus Christ entered them will help keep our daily problems in perspective.”
“The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.”
“The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.”
“The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.”

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