"Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel."

--

Renata Adler

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“My mother became a believer, and then I became a believer. But when I was 43 years old, I began to think for myself, somehow, by fluke and by grace. And I thought, "Oh, my. I was so mistaken." The world isn't what I believed it to be. I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.”
“The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.”
“When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.”
“Okay, let me get a pen." There were rustling noises. "I can't find one." More noises. "Okay,shoot." "You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it." Jaine recited her number and listened to the spewing noise as Shelley Cheez-Whizzed it on her countertop.”
“Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.”
“Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (2009). “Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses”, p.224, Applewood Books
“Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me.”

Source : Carolyn Keene (1937). “Nancy Drew 14: The Whispering Statue”, p.33, Penguin
“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”

You may also like:

Adam Gopnik
Writer
David Shields
Author
Elizabeth Hardwick
Novelist
Janet Malcolm
Writer
Joan Didion
Author
Pauline Kael
Film critic
Penelope Gilliatt
Novelist
Robert Gottlieb
Writer
William Shawn
Editor