"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"

-- Irwin Shaw

#Song Quotes #Masters Quotes #Critics Quotes

“It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent”
“I don't want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I'll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it's possible to be. I'm growing and I don't know how to grow. I'm living but I haven't started living yet.”
“You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy”
“A woman who is loved always has success.”

Source : Vicki Baum (2016). “Grand Hotel”, p.117, New York Review of Books
“There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.”
“Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do. And if you don'tâ€” If you don't, people make the assumption that you do not FEEL what they feel. And then they make the assumptionâ€” That you must not feel anything at all.”
“I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.”
“It's tough to get any movie made, but unless it's a movie about race or culture or ethnicity, it's becoming less and less important who's playing what. You see that on the big screen and the small screen, and I think that's great. That's exciting.”

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