Gottesman Fund Quotes

#1. Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

Stephen L. Carter

#2. The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, involves participation in suffering, in the ills and the occasional stabbing joys that come from being part of the human drama.

Madeleine L'Engle

#3. It would have been really easy to spiral down into drugs or alcohol that year, for both of us. But instead we were there, together. We'd taken all the bad things that had happened to us and turned them around into something good and bigger than the two of us.

Keary Taylor

#4. Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

William Hazlitt

#5. I have to go back home for a while." "Ohio?" "Omaha." "Right. Omaha. Why?

Matthew Norman

#6. Straight answers were beyond the powers of Rashid Khalifa, who would never take a short cut if there was a longer, twistier road available.

Salman Rushdie