#ions

I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names. ↗

— John Corigliano

#because #competition #completely #different #different people

You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#opinions

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens. ↗

— Ville Valo

#because #better #big #expectations #flow

Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. ↗

— Jane Austen

#deceit #humility #opinions

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#bad-reviews #boring #complain #literary-criticism #lotr

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ↗

— William Blake

#thought #water

I don't care what you think unless it is about me. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#narcissism #opinion #opinions

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#quote #opinions

Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all— and when you mention it to the girl, she'll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn't keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#opinions

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#books #committee #decisions #deferring #instead