James Salter The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as ‘fiction’ and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called ‘nonfiction’ strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things. – James Salter Arbitrary Quotes Called Quotes Classified Quotes Fiction Quotes Invented Quotes Nonfiction Quotes Notion Quotes Separation Quotes Strikes Quotes Wholly Quotes Writing Quotes The writers of books are companions in one’s life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions. Although I’ve made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.
Nick Harkaway In both ‘Tigerman’ and my first book, ‘The Gone-Away World,’ there are characters who never really get names. They’re too fundamentally who they are to be bound by a name, so I couldn’t give them one. – Nick Harkaway
John Calipari We should not go to a baseball rule. If a kid goes to college and, after a year or two, wants to go to the NBA and is good enough – and he grew, he got bigger, he got more confidence – let him go. Why would you now force a kid to go two years? – John Calipari
GodJohn MuirMen Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. – John Muir
Hans Kung It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division. – Hans Kung
Joseph Wambaugh What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it. – Joseph Wambaugh
Alexander Walker I’m of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood. – Alexander Walker
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