"What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am."

-- Hortense Calisher

#Writing Quotes #Most Powerful Quotes

“I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.”
“Bridesmaids are never going to upstage the bride.”
“do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.”

Source : Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.18, A&C Black
“I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.”

Source : William H. Gass (2014). “On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry”, p.20, New York Review of Books
“Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.”
“The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field”
“The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when you make a mistake, pretend it's ritual." It's beautiful!”
“The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that such ecstasy remains as much a birthright in this world as misery remains a condition of it.”

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