Famous quotes by Authors

"A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination"

Hal Borland, Author

"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me"

Alice Walker, Author

"All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world"

Alice Walker, Author

"I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to"

Alice Walker, Author

"Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail"

Clive James, Author

"Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God"

Thomas Merton, Author

"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another"

Thomas Merton, Author

"The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom"

Thomas Merton, Author

"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I only understand realism"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I allow my intuition to lead my path"

Manuel Puig, Author

"Tardiness in literature can make me nervous"

Manuel Puig, Author

"My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms"

Manuel Puig, Author

"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free"

Manuel Puig, Author

"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time"

Manuel Puig, Author

"The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective"

Manuel Puig, Author

"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry"

Manuel Puig, Author

"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs"

Manuel Puig, Author

"It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade"

Manuel Puig, Author

"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones"

Manuel Puig, Author

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