"An honest book is almost as good as a friend."

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Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.261, Macmillan

Robert Charles Wilson

#Book Quotes #Honest Quotes

“I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.”
“Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life . . . and you messed it up again.”
“I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.”
“the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for us musicians if, arrived at a given emotional crisis in our work, we could simply stick in a few bars of Brahms or Schubert. Indeed many composers have no hesitation in so doing. But I have never heard the practice defended; possibly because that hideous symbol of petty larceny, the inverted comma, cannot well be worked into a musical score.”

Source : Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”
“I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.”
“If you can observe your own experience with a minimum of interference, and if you don't try to control what you experience, if you simply allow things to happen and you observe them, then you will be able to discover things about yourself that you did not know before. You can discover little pieces of the inner structures of your mind, the very things that make you who you are.”
“The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (1988). “The far side of the street: fifteen short stories”
“Across the room, she heard a loud clatter. She looked up to see that Roland ahd fallen out of his chair. The last time she'd glanced at him, he'd been leaning back on tw legs, and now it looked like gravity had finally won. As he stumbled to his feet, Arriane went to help him. She glanced over and offered a hurried wave. "He's okay!" she called cheerily. "Get up!" she whispered loudly to Roland.”

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