"One of the problems with a lot of "confessional" writing is that it starts and stops with the confessional and doesn't really tie the "I" into a "we" at all. I'm still surprised at how mad critics get at that kind of confessional writing."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Kiese Laymon

#Writing Quotes #Ties Quotes #Mad Quotes

“And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?”

Source : Discussion at the Seattle Independent Media Center, August 10, 2003.
“The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased manâ€™s sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too.”
“It is especially appropriate to say that the greatest command, the most condensed philosophy, the wisest success-achieving advice ever given was given by a man who was crucified. He summed it all up when he said, "Love one another." One does not really need to fight for success. One can love one's way to success.”
“Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.”
“I think I always knew I was going to somehow be on a stage. I was quite an extrovert, as a child. And I did a lot of music, when I was younger, so I thought I was going to go into music, but I fell into acting, in a really weird way.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess”
“Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.”
“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.”

Source : Ian Fleming (2012). “You Only Live Twice: James Bond 007”, p.273, Random House

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