"The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that."

“If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.57, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

“After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine...”

“In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.”

Source : "THE DEMOCRATS: THE KENNEDY FACTOR; 40 Years Later, Invoking Spirit of New Frontier" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. August 16, 2000.

“I always wanted to be a criminal, but not this big a one.”

“Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.”

Source : Alessandro Manzoni (1983). “The Betrothed”, p.54, Penguin UK

“Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger.”

Source : Sir John Denham (1709). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.301

“I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!”