"Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these things must be built, and we must craft them with the materials at hand, and make as strong and stubborn redoubt as we can make, lest the horrors of the Night should triumph over us, not in some distant age to come, but now."

-- John C. Wright

#Strong Quotes #Night Quotes #Men Quotes

“To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.”
“I was extremely frustrated, almost at the point of giving up on coming up with a name for the project (because I'm awful at it), when I decided to play the 'put a pen somewhere on a map with your eyes closed' game with South Africa. About the 5th try was St. Lucia in South Africa, which coincidentally also happens to be an idyllic sub-tropical seaside resort town. The name seemed to fit with the mood of the music, and so after a while it just stuck.”
“Making a film is like raising a child. You have to be there every step of the way, guide it, provide for it, and finally let it go into the real world and hope you have done a good job. If you don't absolutely love your film then you will loss interest in it and the movie will suffer.”
“I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”

Source : "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Book by Anne Bronte (under the pseudonym "Acton Bell"), Preface to the 2nd edition, July 22, 1848.
“Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.”

Source : "Claire Messud and Robin Desser". Interview with Robin Desser, www.slate.com. May 3, 2013.
“Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.”
“For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.”
“Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.”

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