"All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving--amateurs--we proceed, seeking out the blank places in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers--should we be lucky enough to find any--some of the pleasure that we ourselves have taken in the stuff that we love: to get in on the game. All novels are sequels; influence is bliss."

-- Michael Chabon

#Taken Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Games Quotes

“The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday.”
“It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.”
“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.”

Source : Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press
“There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.”
“You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.”
“I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself”
“As actors, we have that in common that we go for slightly out-of-the-box or genre stuff. They're great when they work, but they don't always work. Genre stuff is really hard to pull off, as any fans of it know.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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