"To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later."

-- Brander Matthews

#Grace Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Charm Quotes

“I'm a big stupid history nerd.”
“I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.”
“I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.”
“Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving”
“The moment when you take your first step through the gates of hell, the only thing you will hear is all of creation standing to its feet and applauding and praising God because God has rid the earth of you. That's how not good you are.”
“Put your good where it will do the most!”

Source : Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.145, Macmillan
“Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!”
“He was dancing to some music No one else had ever heard He'd speak in unknown languages She would translate every word And then when the world was laughing At his castles in the sky She'd hold him in her body Till he once again could fly.”

Source : Song: Shooting Star, 1974

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