"Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three minutes. If I make a typo, I let it stand. Sometimes in fact I correct the typo without thinking, and then I back up and retype the typo so that it'll look more casual. I don't know why."

-- Nicholson Baker

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Three Quotes

“I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.”
“Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.”

Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.170, Penguin
“My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.”
“Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.”
“Running has never failed to give me great end results, and that's why I keep coming back for more!”
“The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.”
“Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.”
“Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves. And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute's profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.”

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