"The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing."

-- Angus Wilson

#Writing Quotes #Novelists Quotes #Admirer Quotes

“Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.”
“Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.”

Source : "Luis A. Ferré Dies at 99; Pushed Puerto Rican Statehood" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2003.
“Myrnin, drive carefully. Understand?" "Of course." He didn't.”
“There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is other and larger than our own, yet which is most truly our own. For, to be ourselves, we must be more than ourselves. What we call love is, in truth . . . the losing of our individual selves to gain a larger self.”

Source : John Caird (1894). “An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion”
“Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.”
“As is commonly said, â€˜to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.â€™”
“I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.”
“I just wanted to make more of a lifestyle record instead of anything else. I wasn't trying to do anything mainstream or nothing like that. I wanted to speak on this time period where I was fed up with a couple things and I had an idea of what I wanted to do.”

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