"The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything."

-- Theodore Sturgeon

#Majority Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Commerce Quotes

“I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.”
“I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.”
“The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.”
“When I first started doing the quieter, more acoustic material in Swans, there was a lot of derision and outright hatred from the audience and press, just as in the early days of Swans when we were rejected outright because of the bludgeoning, single-minded violence of the music.”
“Everybody needs one essential friend.”
“Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day”
“Be polite to all, but intimate with few.”
“If we all die and there is no God, then it's just eternal unconsciousness, you'll never know, but if you're wrong... you'll know forever.”

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