I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships. George R. R. Martin Read Quote
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. Vaclav Havel Read Quote
The poet’s other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. Salvatore Quasimodo Read Quote
Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night’s sleep, and strangers’ monologues framed like Russian short stories. Paul Theroux Read Quote
If you really want change, no one else is going to make that for you. It’s all mental at first. Once you overcome that mental part, your body can do anything. Luke James Read Quote
Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It’s about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents’ influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions – art, music, sports, what have you. Greg van Eekhout Read Quote
I always try to balance life by thinking failure of any kind, be it relationship or any project, should not affect me as an individual. Karan Patel Read Quote
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water. Manoj Bhargava Read Quote
