"It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened."

-- V. S. Pritchett

#Novelists Quotes #Shows Quotes

“Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.”

Source : "Turf Wars". www.newyorker.com. March 30, 2009.
“All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.”
“Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight.”
“Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don't wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name?”

Source : "Be Somebody... or Be Somebody's Fool!". Family, Music/Video, www.imdb.com. 1984.
“It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.”
“Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.”
“Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.”

Source : Ben Casnocha (2015). “My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons
“Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1985). “Hungry hearts and other stories”, Persea Books

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