"When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing."

-- Max Hastings

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.”
“You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.”
“When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates him, however just it might be, and it seems that he is afraid of discovering the truth.”
“Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.”
“In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferretâ€™s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown
“I once buggered a man unconscious. I'm lying, he was already unconscious when I found him”
“But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.”

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