"Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel."

-- John Irving

#Writing Quotes #Dark Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.”
“The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.”
“I hate optimism out of insensitivity.”
“I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.”
“I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.”
“It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.”
“The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.”

Source : "A Woman's Worth: 1857 Letter Echoes Still; Some Basic Disputes Over Feminism Persist" by Patricia Cohen, www.nytimes.com. July 18, 1998.
“Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.”

You may also like:

Charles Dickens
Writer
Gunter Grass
Novelist
Harper Lee
Novelist
Haruki Murakami
Writer
John Updike
Novelist
Kurt Vonnegut
Writer
Lasse Hallstrom
Film director
Michael Chabon
Author
Salman Rushdie
Novelist