"Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time."

-- David Remnick

#Writing Quotes #Cartoon Quotes

“Metz's Perfection chronicles with lapidary precision one woman's climb back to happiness after not just a spouse's death, but also the shocking recognition that her life before that death was not what she had thought it was. The journey is a painful one, but Ms. Metz is much the stronger for having survived to recount it.”
“I would love to do Evita or Elphaba in Wicked. But I am more excited to originate a role on Broadway.”
“What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, Iâ€™ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think itâ€™s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasnâ€™t picked out, Juliet wasnâ€™t picked out. You donâ€™t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.”

Source : Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.473, Everyman's Library
“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”
“A cross without offense to the world is a cross without power in the world.”
“Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.”
“A library is a path to the future--find yours there.”
“Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.”

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