"Sometimes you read something and it's just -- it doesn't invite a reader....Sometimes you read something and it's not saying, 'oh come in, come in have a seat. I'm going to tell you what happened.' Perhaps my writing comes off as conversational...and that takes effort."

-- David Sedaris

#Writing Quotes #Effort Quotes #Community Quotes

“It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.”

Source : Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage
“The clashes of people and the clashes of cultures have assisted me in learning the openness you have to be a part of in New York. You're always meeting people who are different than you. You always have to find a way to exist in it and also find a way to be yourself. In Stockholm, I thought I was artsy, then I came to New York and was like, "there's a bunch of artsy people everywhere!" It really forced me to start looking myself and ask. "what does it mean to be me?"”

Source : Source: www.highsnobiety.com
“I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.”
“When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.”

Source : Ross Macdonald (2010). “Sleeping Beauty”, p.65, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.”
“Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can't do much if every town does it. There aren't enough Bohemians.”
“Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.”
“When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.”

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