"What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it."

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Source : "Janet Burroway talks about writing lives". The Chicago Manual of Style Interview, cmosshoptalk.com. April 4, 2014.

Janet Burroway

#What Matters Quotes #Practice Quotes #Imaginative Quotes

“At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.”
“Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.”
“Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.”
“You know, my joints don't feel sore as much, I digest food a lot better, my hands feel less swollen so I feel really good,”

Source : "Wie hopes to boost game by eating gluten-free diet". Interview, www.taipeitimes.com. February 23, 2012.
“If, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased.”
“When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.”
“The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they yet enjoyed comparative rest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century their churches numbered two hundred in Bohemia and Moravia.”

Source : Ezra Hall Gillett (1864). “The Life and Times of John Huss: Or, The Bohemian Reformation of the Fifteenth Century”, p.570
“It will be funny in about 10 years.”

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