"A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end."

-- Chaim Potok

#Writing Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.”

Source : Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond, Mary Cassatt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2008). “Women impressionists”
“I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.”

Source : Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”
“There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.”
“The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.”
“The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.”
“There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.”
“I dont want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where its everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.”
“A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.”

Source : "Changing rooms" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2002.

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