Spoleto Festival Quotes

#1. In 1987, I had no idea who Steven Isserlis was. We met at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. It was originally just an Italian summer festival, but for the past 14 years, there's also been a spring festival in America.

Joshua Bell

#2. I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Pat Conroy

#3. Each man creates god in his own image.

Mordecai Richler

#4. If Alice had a post-engagement policy, it was to pass.

Alexis Coe

#5. The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

Voltaire

#6. The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.

Kedar Joshi

#8. Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.

John Edward Williams

#9. God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.

Brennan Manning

#10. Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Raymond Chandler

#11. I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Charles Colson

#12. Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

David Milch