"The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky characters, and a math lesson or two; all together, a winning equation! When Rojstaczer writes about mathematics, you'd think he was writing about poetry."

-- Jonathan Evison

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Math Quotes

“There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.”

Source : Avi (2012). “Beyond the Western Sea #1: Escape From Home”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.
“12 of the best years of my life - It will never be forgotten.”
“When I was young, the concept of being a dreamer was a very negative one. If you were a dreamer, you were useless. You didn't contribute anything to society. But Star Trek made dreaming legitimate, and I think that was a huge, huge contribution.”
“Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.”
“If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.”
“Low aim, not failure, is the crime.”
“The authenticity aspect is pretty important to me. When we have to compromise and do something that's not authentic, it really rubs me, every time I have to see it in the edit, which is millions of times.”
“...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.”

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