"One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers."

-- Mary Abigail Dodge

#Writing Quotes #Matter Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.156, Emblem Editions
“Iâ€™m done with the winning cause Iâ€™ve already won.”
“Adventure does not exist. It exists only in the mind of the man who pursues it, and as soon as his fingers graze it, it vanishes to appear much further off, in another form, at the limits of the imagination.”
“Putting Instagram into a different context is about rescuing it from the tyranny of now, taking it back from the muddy river that everyone is pouring things into. As a poet, as a thinker, as an artist, I believe there's another way to experience the world, and another way to experience time.It can't all just be public relations and branding; it's about making meaning with signs around you.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.”
“If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.”
“Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.”
“Do you ever get the feeling like you already know the entire contents of the universe somewhere inside of your head, as if you were born with a complete map of this world already grafted onto the folds of your cerebellum and you are just spending your entire life figuring out how to access this map?”

Source : Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.328, Penguin

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