"I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Book Quotes #Want Quotes #Normal Quotes

“To work from nature is to improvise.”
“I would say, if you're a musician then you probably have some capacity and some intuition. You've got to trust that intuition and be true to what compels you. There will be a lot of things along the way that will try to remove you from that, and if you do, then I think you are diminished. If you stay with it, then you have something that's real.”

Source : "Get Back to That Place: Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins Talks Touring Again and Why He Adores Tove Lo". Interview with Kelli Bender, people.com. June 30, 2015.
“I don't really know what's going to happen 10,000 years from now. We've been biologically modern for, what, almost 200,000 years? Let's go back to the cave paintings: I think the moment that someone landed a charcoal on a wall to describe reality, that's language already - that happened on a vertical surface, which, even though they didn't build it, somehow we could understand it as architecture because there's a cavity that separates the inside and outside. That's 40,000 years in the past.”
“Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.”
“Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.”
“Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.”
“Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.”

Source : "The Quest of Happiness: A Study of Victory Over Life's Troubles".
“I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.”

You may also like:

Ian Mcewan
Novelist
Jennifer Egan
Novelist
Jonathan Franzen
Novelist
Marilynne Robinson
Novelist
Michael Chabon
Author
Philip Roth
Novelist
Rick Moody
Novelist
Sofia Coppola
Screenwriter
Zadie Smith
Novelist