"There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted if people want to use words that come from genres to describe how this book functions because those words are accurate."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Emily Barton

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.”
“People don't need to be paid to be motivated.”

Source : Jonah Berger (2016). “Contagious: Why Things Catch On”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
“The goal of art-making in general is communication.”
“You took care of your horse, and your horse took care of you.”
“...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.”
“A great product will survive all abuse. Google Glass is a great product. How do I know? Every person I put it on (I did it dozens of times at 500 Startups yesterday) smiles. No other product has done that since the iPod.”

Source : Facebook post by Robert Scoble, www.facebook.com. May 3, 2013.
“If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?”
“There's nothing revolutionary about Saturday Night Fever . You can see the same kind of movement at your local disco.”

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