Cavandoli Quotes

#1. The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.

John Green

#2. Why is it that the most fundamental life lesson - LIVE! - is the only one I continually forget to put into practice?

Megan McCafferty

#3. Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

James Purdy

#4. I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends ... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

Oscar Levant

#5. Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.

Kate Christensen

#6. I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

Patrice Leconte

#7. Everyone makes books.

Ken Liu

#8. If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

Rene Balcer