"There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great."

-- Denise Mina

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“When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.”

Source : "Artists on Art, from the 14 to 20 Centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 407, 1972.
“Phoenix is great. I love Phoenix, .. I love Scottsdale. I love the James Hotel. I have a Kathy Griffin suite. I love -what's that place called? AZ 88. I had never had a cheese crisp, so I went to - oh, can't remember. We went to the State Fair, where I was all about the deep-fried Twinkie. I ate every deep-fried thing - oh, it was heavenly. I ate until I got sick.”
“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”

Source : "A Few Words to a Young Writer" by Ursula K. Le Guin, www.ursulakleguin.com. 2008.
“I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.”
“I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.”
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”
“We think so because all other people think so; Or because-or because-after all, we do think so; Or because we were told so, and think we must think so; Or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; Or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.”
“I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.”

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