"I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that."

-- Michael Tolkin

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“Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.”

Source : "The Story of a Strong Woman in a Patriarchal Country: Nell Freudenberger's The Newlyweds". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. June 22, 2012.
“Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that cigarettes alone were the cause of their destruction. No boy living would commence the use of cigarettes if he knew what a useless, soulless, worthless thing they would make of him.”
“A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that heâ€™s worth something. And if I know for sure that Iâ€™m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?”
“I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.”
“The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.”
“As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.”
“You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.”

Source : Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage
“So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.”

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