Arty Type Quotes

#1. What's with the serum?"
I don't know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Benway. The man's not to be trusted. Might do almost anything ... Turn a massacre into a sex orgy ... "
Or a joke."
Precisely. Arty type ... No principles ...

William S. Burroughs

#2. Many fear mistakes. In TV and films you just re-shoot the scene. In life do the same and just shoot a re-take.

Ian Dobson

#3. I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

Dree Hemingway

#4. A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?

Jacques Lacan

#5. Idolatry means turning a good thing into the ultimate thing.

Timothy Keller

#6. My dear, you are in danger of being burned by your own flame.

Jeanette Winterson

#7. Kenji is a walking paradox of Unflinchingly Serious Person and 12-Year-Old Boy Going Through Puberty all rolled into one.

Tahereh Mafi

#8. Every act of love is a dagger in the heart of ISIS. May they bleed to death.

Johnnie Moore

#9. I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.

Samantha Fox

#10. With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.

James Patterson

#11. But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.

Fred Astaire