"The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone."

-- Donna Tartt

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“Ive never really tried to copy anyone, I like to have my own style.”
“You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.”
“We have a historic system in place since the early part of the last century and this is going to be one of the biggest battles in California if we decide to take it on.”
“To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.”

Source : "An Essay on Regimen: Together with Five Discourses, Medical, Moral, and Philosophical". Book by George Cheyne, 1740.
“I've hurt you terribly my love, and I'll hunt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never I hope as much as you are hurting me now. But if that's the way it has to be, then I'll endure it, because the only alternative is to live without you, and that is no life at all. And the difference is that I know it, and you don't... not yet...”
“There is a creative act involved by the receiver as well as by the sender and that makes for innovation. Both sides are equally important.”
“We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'”
“A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow.”

Source : Alice Steinbach (2010). “Educating Alice”, p.37, Random House

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