"Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English."

-- Rebecca L. Walkowitz

#Ambitious Quotes #Fiction Quotes #World Quotes

“Unfortunately, what my head wanted and what my heart wanted were two completely different things.”
“As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.”

Source : Karen Kingsbury (2013). “The Chance”, p.217, Simon and Schuster
“I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.”

Source : FaceBook post by Adèle Exarchopoulos from Dec 02, 2015
“A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.”
“I feel as though I never had choice not to be a writer. I feel in my heart of hearts that writing chose me and this is what I must do. I have no choice but to write, and to write, and to write, because my very life depends on it. And to assume that, of course, everyone in the entire universe wants to read what I've written.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“When people say ceramics is therapeutic and seductive, I think it's really about the wheel. Nothing I've done has that feeling; I feel like I'm fighting with the material the whole time. It doesn't want to be vague. It doesn't want to be asymmetrical. It doesn't want to have different clays combined. It doesn't want to do any of the things I make it do.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.”
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

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