"Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend."

-- William Feather

#Book Quotes #Good Friend Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating and intricate style that might not appeal to as many readers but will be incredibly meaningful to the readers you have. Truly, that's as wonderful if not more wonderful.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience-let him read someone else.”
“I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.”
“Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.”
“What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone.”
“The biggest problem I had with starring in Scrubs were the black doctors. I just had to keep telling myself this show was satire.”
“There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins. Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored. As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.”

Source : "Isaac Hayes Quits 'South Park'", www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2006.
“Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems”

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