"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code"

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Clifford Geertz

#Writing Quotes #Want Quotes #Information Quotes

“It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.”
“Now is my time. Everything I've done up to this point is just a warm up. This is where it all begins.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rick James from Jul 10, 2013
“To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.”
“Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.”

Source : Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.19, Open Road Media
“It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.”
“I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.”
“Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you're talking about Gary and myself, we have a God-given talent, but we worked at it and we're happy to be where we are today.”
“The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal.”

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