"Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning."

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com

Arundhati Roy

#Morning Quotes #Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Pray you now, forget and forgive.”
“Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by which to understand the worth of stocks....investors have no model or at best a very incomplete model of behavior of prices, dividend, or earnings, of speculative assets.”

Source : "Martket Volatility". Book by Robert J. Shiller, www.businessinsider.com. 1992.
“I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.”

Source : David Ignatow (2011). “Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994”, p.57, Wesleyan University Press
“I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the same way Carl Panzram 'reformed' people who tried to reform him. It would be most merciful to help them by relieving them of the life they seem to hate so much. People should be happy I'm not a humanitarian-or I'd probably be the most diabolical mass murderer the world has ever known.”

Source : Interview in Wendy Leigh's Speaking Frankly, 1978.
“Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic.”
“All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.”
“One has to kill a few of oneâ€™s natural selves to let the rest grow â€” a very painful slaughter of innocents.”

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