"I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words."

-- Georges Simenon

#Writing Quotes #Simple Quotes #Earth Quotes

“I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.”
“I have a fetish for damsels in distress.â€ â€œDonâ€™t be sexist.â€ â€œNot at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. Itâ€™s an equal opportunity fetish.”
“It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria as a cover story for their real agenda, which is top-down class warfare. To put it in Romneyesque terms, it's all about finding an excuse to slash programs that help people who like to watch Nascar events, even while lavishing tax cuts on people who like to own Nascar teams.”
“My medium is prose, not the novel.”

Source : David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.23, Vintage
“Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand. Those who trust to such false quoters will often learn how contrary this transmission is to the sense and application of the original. Every transplantation has altered the fruit of the tree; every new channel, the quality of the stream in its remove from the spring-head.”
“The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.”

Source : Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.639, Candlewick Press
“Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.222, Vintage
“Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?”

Source : "Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

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