"I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell."

-- Stephen L. Carter

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.”
“I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.”
“The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.”
“Sunlight is painting.”
“I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.”
“Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management.”
“I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.”
“I'd hear some beautiful Sade or Kings Of Convenience ballad remixed in a club, and I liked that these simple little songs seemed to be masquerading. They had put on superhero costumes, got all beefy, and here they were on the dance floor. I was interested in that. I can't make electronic beats, so I leave it to the pros like Boys Noize and Chromeo.”

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