"I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is violence in all of us, and beauty, and strength, and weakness. What's my job? To only write about the good and the beauty, or is it to write about all of it? That's my greater responsibility, to write about them as I see them and as they are."

-- Markus Zusak

#Jobs Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Even in the depths of sleep, in which he had to satisfy his need for protection and love by curling himself up into a trembling ball, he could not rid himself of the feeling of loneliness and homelessness.”

Source : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics
“Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.”
“A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with which scientists in that field are concerned.”

Source : Talcott Parsons (1937). “The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers”
“It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art, essentially the result of an intuitive process, drawing on all that the artist is rather than on anything he thinks, far less theorizes about.”

Source : Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”
“Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.”
“The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.”
“All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.”

Source : "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. April 1, 2015.
“When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.”

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