Erasures Quotes

#1. Of all the contracts I had signed, this was perhaps the only one that my father could never have imagined me signing, for it traded what should never be traded. It delivered me into the unknown and erased my father's name. I could not know that this was just the first of many erasures.

Laila Lalami

#2. When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out.

Matthea Harvey

#3. Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

Matthea Harvey

#4. The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.

Isamu Noguchi

#5. Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.

Jorie Graham

#6. You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers

Horace

#7. To be a success, be yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#8. I don't want to go home and tell my wife and my girls, 'I was gone last week because I had to do a press release.'

James Lankford

#9. I drew a deepish breath.

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

Yanis Varoufakis

#11. Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#12. I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.

Bill Bryson

#13. Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

Laura Dern

#14. Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.

Meredith Whitney