"As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it."

-- Tama Janowitz

#Responsibility Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.”
“If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.”
“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
“Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.”
“I look at my kid, and one part of me wants to keep her as my little baby. But, y'know, the bottom line is she's 18!”
“I am already inducted into the female boxing hall of fame and I don't know if the International Boxing Hall of Fame has any females in it. I don't know and if I don't, I'm ok with it. At this time in my life I understand that. I never want to say I'm the greatest fighter as a female.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success”
“I hate hateful people.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2011.

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