"What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all of them are hung on a single string - the loosely-reined voice mentioned above. Thus the collection jogs away from suzerainty and past federation toward, I guess, alliance. Or maybe call each story a separate house on a single street? Or it's all a line of dive bars on some wharf front? What the hell, let's call reading the collection a pub crawl, but with words."

-- Roy Kesey

#Reading Quotes #Past Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.”
“To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself.”
“The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.”
“It's hard being the guy that brings in a song, because you're very, you know, it can be something that you get too sensitive about.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.”
“I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers”
“I was in the original cast of 'Wicked', and that got a bad review in 'The New York Times,' and it's the most successful thing that's ever been put onstage.”

Source : "Norbert Leo Butz And The Root Of Evil". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.
“The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.”

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