"When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball."

-- Raymond Chandler

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“I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.”
“No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.”
“Happy endings are a luxury of fiction”
“And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.”

Source : Alistair MacLeod (2010). “Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod”, p.21, Emblem Editions
“No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame.”
“Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.”
“Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.”
“I only know what it's like to be an author with social media. I can't compare. I do think we lose the mystery of the author. Today, I get tons of e-mails and Facebook messages from readers, and my goal with Twitter and Facebook is, if someone reaches out to me, I'm going to respond to them. I don't want to be an elitist author who is untouchable. I'm just a regular person, too. I will always respond to everybody.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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