"Truth lives on in the midst of deception...."

-- Friedrich Schiller

#Truth Quotes #Deception Quotes #Midst Quotes

“When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?”
“Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you, you take all contemplation, all consideration of your own departure. All the suffering that would have come from knowing comes after you are gone, and you are not a part of it.”
“I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]”
“In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems as if the same person writing is the one illustrating and vice versa.”
“Do you believe in God? I, I believe in nothing but God!”
“Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they don't know how to do their jobs. "I don't know how to sell this," they explain, frowning, as though it's your fault. "I don't know how to package this. I don't know what the market is for this book. I don't know how we're going to draw attention to this." In most occupations, people try to hide their incompetence; only in publishing is it flaunted as though it were the chief qualification for the job.”
“For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.”
“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”

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