Shamara Afia Quotes

#1. It is always a high possibility to see lights after midnight in the house of a writer! That is the light of the love for words!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is by way of the Chimney. (What did it mean? Soon we were all to learn what it meant.)

Primo Levi

#3. Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

Mark Rothko

#4. The price of purity is purists.

Calvin Trillin

#5. Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching.

Cesar Chavez

#6. Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

Rufus Wainwright

#7. We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton

#8. When the Naysayers Are Loud, Turn Up the Music

Reid Hoffman

#9. The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

Don DeLillo

#10. Too live somewhere is ok, but too have the Happiness there can be a Goal

Jan Jansen

#11. I'm working on something that's not yet novel-shaped but is something of a film-noir-flavored 'Alice in Wonderland.' It will also very likely be a single volume story and not the start of a series.

Erin Morgenstern