#james

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don’t have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#henry-james #john-irving #library #information

Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song? ↗

— James Frey

#biology #frey #god #james #little

Cuando pienso en ti, y no estás ahí, siempre te veo en mi mente con un libro en la mano. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa-gray #tessa-gray

And soon we were just rolling around on the ground, cursing and screeching and ripping out handfuls of hair. Without super hearing, I wouldn't have heard Zeb whisper, "This is the coolest thing I have ever seen." "Maybe they'll get muddy," Dick said. "Please, Lord, let them get muddy. ↗

— Molly Harper

#funny #jane-jameson #missy #molly-harper #mud

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor. ↗

— Chris Burke

#because #i #james #just #like

Will you no come back again? Better loved you’ll never be, And will you no come back again? ↗

— James Hogg

#james #jocobite-relics #love #love

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#analyzer #bring #could #i #i am