Zakes Quotes

#1. When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone ... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.

Felix Dennis

#2. It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.

John Irving

#3. There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.

Zakes Mda

#4. Everyone's secrets are coming to light tonight, thought Sophronia, wondering how she had missed this little facet of inter-teacher dynamics.

Gail Carriger

#5. Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.

John N. Bahcall

#6. Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.

Ricky Van Veen

#7. There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.

Andy Stanley

#8. If you can't be funny, be interesting.

Harold Ross

#9. Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

Aneurin Bevan

#10. If you are truly telling a South African story then it will be political - because you are dealing with people who lead political lives in an environment which is highly politically charged.

Zakes Mda

#11. The song of the umrhubhe creates a world of dreams.

Zakes Mda

#12. Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.

Zakes Mda

#13. My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

Zakes Mda

#14. And James Loewen just proved that we all are wrong... this concept is fucking hard to be swallowed.

Deyth Banger

#15. Race is still somewhat of a taboo in comedy. But if you're a minority, then you can make fun of your own minority. And that's a nice service that many of them provide.

Emo Philips

#16. I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

Britt Daniel

#17. When it's family, Nick, there's a limit to the shit I'll eat. But there is no limit to the love I'll give.

Kristen Ashley

#18. Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again.

Zakes Mda

#19. I did have a friend,' I said.

'And your friend trespassed upon you,' the Wally replied.

Alexandra Kleeman

#20. I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers.

Jack Kirby

#21. One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.

James Surowiecki