"But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art."

-- Russell Banks

#Art Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that I've gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling like I've been shafted.”
“One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.”
“There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.”
“The new French theme park based on Napoleon is named Napoleon's Bivouac, and will honor Napoleon with rides, battle reenactments, and the brutal March on Moscow ride. That's a walk-in freezer you stand in for 18 months while you try to eat a dead horse.”
“Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.”
“I love TV. I love the stability of it.”
“I'd always thought that heavy metal - what I knew of it, anyway - was for tragic losers with acne and inch-thick glasses who fantasised about slaying dragons and riding Harleys, failing to realise at the time that the only loser was me. Fortunately, a good friend of mine played me 'Battery' from Metallica's Master Of Puppets album and the scales fell instantly from my eyes. It was a total revelation.”
“And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.”

Source : Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.31, Carcanet

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