Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...
William Trevor (1928 - ):
“As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I
think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society.
Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst
of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in
the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance.”
and
“I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since
that you can’t write unless you read.”
Bob Dylan (1941 - ):
“Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
and
“I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.”
and
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to
bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
Michael Chabon (1963 - ):
“The problem, if anything, was precisely the opposite. I had
too much to write: too many fine and miserable buildings to construct and
streets to name and clock towers to set chiming, too many characters to raise
up from the dirt like flowers whose petals I peeled down to the intricate frail
organs within, too many terrible genetic and fiduciary secrets to dig up and
bury and dig up again, too many divorces to grant, heirs to disinherit, trysts
to arrange, letters to misdirect into evil hands, innocent children to slay
with rheumatic fever, women to leave unfulfilled and hopeless, men to drive to
adultery and theft, fires to ignite at the hearts of ancient houses.”
Mo Willems (1968 - ):
“A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect
that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you
have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you,
whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a
friend. It’s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is
there for you always and unconditionally.”
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