Quotes of the day, August 5
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
William Faulkner
August 4
I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
Tariq Ali
August 3
My mates who are younger than me are all slagging me for it - saying I am so much older and my crow's feet are showing.
Anzia Yezierska
August 2
We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.
Ned Vizzini
August 1
Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.
William Warburton
July 31
I think that Twilight is so big that nothing can affect it.
Judi Shekoni
