Famous quotes by Authors

"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other"

Manuel Puig, Author

"Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood"

Manuel Puig, Author

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are"

Anais Nin, Author

"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle"

Anais Nin, Author

"My ideas usually come not at my desk, writing, but in the midst of living"

Anais Nin, Author

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings"

Anais Nin, Author

"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat"

Anais Nin, Author

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself"

Anais Nin, Author

"Good things happen to those who hustle"

Anais Nin, Author

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born"

Anais Nin, Author

"Dreams are necessary to life"

Anais Nin, Author

"Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions"

Anais Nin, Author

"What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death"

Susan Sontag, Author

"The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Books are funny little portable pieces of thought"

Susan Sontag, Author

"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are"

Susan Sontag, Author

"It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming"

John Steinbeck, Author

"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit"

John Steinbeck, Author

"Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak, and have excellent spoken grammar"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination"

Edward Abbey, Author

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