"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."

--

William Faulkner

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Childhood is a short season.”
“I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action ...”

Source : Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”
“I’m not trying to play the guitar. I’m trying to play music.”
“I look up to myself, tryna get better. Always tryna get better.”
“The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new, but to the continuous evolution of zoologic types which develop ceaselessly and end by becoming unrecognisable to the common sight, but where an expert eye finds always traces of the prior work of the centuries past. One must not think then that the old-fashioned theories have been sterile and vain.”
“I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.”
“Wicked companions invite us to hell.”
“I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.”

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