"I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw."

-- Thomas Aquinas

#Writing Quotes

“The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.”
“The reason I quit fashion was that I had had enough of spending time always being on my knees, making other people look amazing and fabulous. I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point it was not enough”
“The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.”

Source : Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.5
“People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.”
“Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.”
“I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, racism, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth and licentious, usurious economics.”

Source : George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press
“Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important to me."”

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