"A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns."

-- P. L. Travers

#Art Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.”
“Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.”
“The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are a proof that the people have liberty enough, and I could not wish them less than they have. If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. 'Malo libertatem periculosam quam quietem servitutem.' Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.”
“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.”
“We are living like brothers, Christians and Muslims. Also the Jews lived in peace with us before the occupation began.”
“I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.”
“[David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?] Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.”
“Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.”

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