"Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a sense of momentum, of going someplace. You hear a snatch of Beethoven and it has a sense of momentum that is unmistakably his. That's a nice quality if you can do it in fiction."

-- John Updike

#Nice Quotes #Moving Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Murdoc is sort of the, um, itâ€™s his band. He sort of put Gorillaz together. Itâ€™s his idea. But heâ€™s sort of an ugly, sort of, snaggle-toothed Satanist who didnâ€™t actually get the job of being the lead singer â€˜cause he isnâ€™t very handsome. So, 2D got the job, which is always going to piss him off.”
“The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes, and let us be careful that no just complaint can be made against our stewardship.”
“I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.”

Source : "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Stacy Keibler", www.esquire.com. March 2, 2011.
“One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.”

Source : Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor
“There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.”
“I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.”
“There is no free market in oil.”
“She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.”

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