Maxwellperkins Quotes

#1. The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#2. Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the fact for a long time. [About F. Scott Fitzgerald]

Maxwell Perkins

#3. Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

Mark Harmon

#4. I think the novel is a wonder....it has vitality to an extraordinary degree, and glamour, and a great deal of underlying thought of unusual quality....And as for the sheer writing, it's astonishing. [About The Great Gatsby]

Maxwell Perkins

#5. Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....The idea of leaving you has never for one single moment entered my head.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. Glimpses of how it really was before us are rare, if not impossible.

Lily King

#7. Adults are the real monsters.

Stephen King

#8. the chance of an average developing-country person being an entrepreneur is more than twice that for a developed-country person (30 per cent vs. 12.8 per cent).

Ha-Joon Chang

#9. To love or be loved is no crime. the really criminal thing is to make a person believe that he or she is the only one you could ever love.

Henry Miller

#10. Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. One can give 'correct' opinion only if one has an open mind.

Dada Bhagwan