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“When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.”
Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.61, Pan Macmillan
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“art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.”
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“I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.”
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“Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold. But if the physical makeup of our world would have been different or is to become different from what it is now, some other commodity would have become or might become money. The market will decide.”
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“Dull winter will re-appear.”
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“We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.”
Source : Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.245, Random House
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“What about Beck?" "Backwoods Boy? Are you crazy? It'd be a threesome - me, him and his overbearing ego. Definitely doomed to failure.”
Source : Jana Oliver (2011). “Soul Thief: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.66, Macmillan
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“Quantum physics shows us the universe as a dynamic web of connection.”
