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“My medium is prose, not the novel.”
Source : David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.23, Vintage
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“Through discipline comes freedom.”
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“I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.”
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“The cat, covered in dust and standing on its hind legs, bowed to Margarita. Round its neck it was now wearing a made-up white bow tie on an elastic band, with a pair of ladies’ mother-of-pearl binoculars hanging on a cord. It had also gilded its whiskers.”
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“I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player.”
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“Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.”
Source : WILLIAM STRUNK, JR. (1959). “THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE”
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“I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused. The dislike of philosophy is perennial, and the seeds of the condemnation of Socrates are present at all times, not in the bosoms of pleasure-seekers, who don't give a damn, but in those of high-minded and idealistic persons who do not want to submit their aspirations to examination.”
Source : "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 19, 1990.
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“Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen.”
