"Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?”
“No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.”
“Build your house with the stones they hurled at you”
“The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.”

Source : Hesketh Pearson (1938). “Thinking it Over: The Reminiscences of Hesketh Pearson”
“I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.”
“Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.”
“I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.”
“If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.”

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