"Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them."

-- Peter Ustinov

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“As far as I can tell, writing the essays didn't change the way I wrote poetry. Although the essays contain scattered passages that might be called lyrical, they often contain closed statements of what is only suggested in the poetry.”

Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
“I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.”
“I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.”
“I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.”

Source : Alessandro Manzoni (1951). “The betrothed (I promessi sposi): a tale of XVII century Milan”
“There's no love lost between us.”
“But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process”

Source : Isocrates (1962). “Isocrates”, Loeb Classical Library
“I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.”
“I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.”

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