"Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth."

-- Michael Chabon

#Pain Quotes #Party Quotes #Wrath Quotes

“The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.”
“A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalysed thought. And that's a problem because privacy matters, privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.”
“The only things you learn are the things you tame”
“Keep your life in a positive perspective. We are not defined by our pasts”
“Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.”
“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy”
“Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.”

Source : "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.
“Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 18, 2015

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