A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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George Bernard Shaw
Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.
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David Lee Roth
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.
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Wallace Stegner
Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book.. .. an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a...
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Scarlett Thomas
In the artifacts that are conscious, memories of vanished lives still flicker. Tissues that were changed without dying hold the moment that a boy heard his sister was leaving home. They hold multiplication tables. They hold images of sexuality and violence and beauty. <span style="margin:15px;...
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James S.A. Corey
More Quotes By Carlos Fuentes
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game .. . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can...
Cristo querÃa a los justos, habitaba las buenas conciencias, pertenecÃa a los hombres de bien, a la gente decente, a las buenas reputaciones. ¡Que cargara el diablo con los humildes, con los pecadores, con los abandonados, con los rebeldes, con los miserables, con los que...
I dalje verujem da Sunce izlazi svakoga dana i da svako novo Sunce najavljuje novi dan;dan koji je juÄe bio budućnost. I dalje verujem da će danaÅ¡nji dan, u trenutku zatvaranja jedne stranice vremena, obećati sutra — ranije nepredvidivo, kasnije neponovljivo
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.
