"The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Jobs Quotes #Character Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.”
“Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.”
“The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn't belong to the soul.”
“If what happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas, how did Harry Reid get out?”
“I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?”
“I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.”
“The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.”
“I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a singing and dancing European intellectual.”

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