"A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom"

-- W. G. Sebald

#Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.”
“The other thing is going to be me being able to show not just the American people or the Israeli people but the world that, in fact, we have mechanisms in place that will prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon.”
“I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.”
“The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.”

Source : Irving Greenberg (2011). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.282, Simon and Schuster
“One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.”
“Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.”
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. The totalitarian world, whether founded on Marx, Islam, or anything else, is a world of answers rather than questions. There, the novel has no place.”
“I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

You may also like:

Alexander Kluge
Author
Gunter Grass
Novelist
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer
Robert Walser
Writer
Thomas Bernhard
Novelist
Thomas Browne
Author
Thomas Mann
Novelist
Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
Walter Benjamin
Literary critic