“What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.”
-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
Category Archives: Quotes
Sigmund Freud Said
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
Malcolm X Said
“Education is the passport to the future for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
C.S. Lewis Said
“We read to know that we are not alone.”
James Baldwin said (2)
“I read everything. I read my way out of the two libraries in Harlem by the time I was thirteen. One does learn a great deal about writing this way. First of all, you learn how little you know. It is true that the more one learns the less one knows. I’m still learning how to write. I don’t know what technique is. All I know is that you have to make the reader see it. This I learned from Dostoyevsky, from Balzac.”
Mother Teresa said
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
Helena Bonham Carter said —
“I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.”
What Gandhi said —
“There is enough for our need but not for our greed.”
James Baldwin said
“When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.”
Ray Bradbury Said (II)
You see, libraries is people. It’s not books.
People are waiting in there, thousands of people, who wrote the books. So it’s much more personal than just a book. So when you open a book, the person pops out and becomes you. You look at Charles Dickens, and you are Charles Dickens, and he is you. So you go in the library and you pull a book off the shelf, and you open it, and what are you looking for? A mirror. All of a sudden, a mirror is there and you see yourself, but your name is Charles Dickens. That’s what a library is. Or the book is Shakespeare, and so you become William Shakespeare or you become Emily Dickinson or Robert Frost or all the great poets. So you find the author who can lead you through the dark.
—NEA Big Read
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