"Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications."

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Source : Manuel Rivas (2010). “Books Burn Badly”, p.291, Random House

Manuel Rivas

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.”
“By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead settled for a perfect incompleteness.”
“When you're looking for a house, you're not looking for a house that's perfect. You're looking for that house to have character. And I think it's those little bits of humanity they come from the music. That's what the music brings out when you have that, it brings out the character of a song. You go back and listen to 30, 40 years of music, and all the great, great songs that we've had in our lives, they all have that character. They have that human nudge, they all have that human relation. You can relate to it.”
“A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.”

Source : "H5N1 - Killer Flu". "Wide Angle" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2005.
“My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who died hundreds of years ago.”
“Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women, as facts of society made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given, therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible.”
“One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.”
“I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life”

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