"Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than anything I might be able to come up with on a single given day."

-- Teju Cole

#Reading Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Important Quotes

“If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.”
“Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.”

Source : Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin
“There are always those 'Gossip Girl' walk-and-talk scenes where you're walking and just talking about life and death. You're having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it's literally a circus.”
“On Startups: "I hate it when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on.”
“Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.”
“...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. [...] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.”
“We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.”
“I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.”

You may also like:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Writer
Dinaw Mengestu
Novelist
Helen Oyeyemi
Novelist
Jennifer Egan
Novelist
NoViolet Bulawayo
Author
Rachel Kushner
Writer
Taiye Selasi
Writer
W. G. Sebald
Writer
Zadie Smith
Novelist