"A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness."

-- Carlo Wolff

#Writing Quotes #Texture Quotes #Tone Quotes

“I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.”
“The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money tradingâ€¦ I know this will sound like a clichÃ©, but the single most important reason that people lose money in the financial markets is that they don't cut their losses short.”
“There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.”

Source : Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.101, Bantam
“Women in America work so hard and not all of them get their shot. And I feel like I worked hard, but I also got my opportunity, which puts in a different category of blessings.”
“All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.”

Source : Guy Debord (1994). “The Society of the Spectacle”, Zone Books (NY)
“I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative artist who often is necessarily at poetic odds with the literal facts.”
“I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.”
“Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'”

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