Espionagem A Vida Quotes

#1. My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the American lit. canon. When he wrote his master's thesis on William Faulkner in the Forties, he couldn't find anybody on the faculty at Columbia University to oversee it because they didn't read Faulkner.

Antonya Nelson

#2. It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.

W.C. Fields

#3. I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#4. As for discipline - it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. My first draft is usually how I meant it, but my second and third drafts is how I want to be understood.

Selena Haskins

#6. I am not master of words to tell you, Jack, the value of an exceedingly remote island to a naturalist, an uninhabited fertile volcanic island covered with a luxuriant vegetation, with no vile rats, dogs, cats, goats, swine, introduced by fools to destroy an Eden, an island untouched ...

Patrick O'Brian

#7. Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

Robert Mugabe

#8. Her boarders are so hard and bright that these lumpy things are being blinded just by looking at her; she's opaque, she's impermeable, she's a million densities and dimensions more real than any of them. They break against her and roll off like mist.

Tana French