#loo

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#books #bore #create #death #expecting

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #back #backward #barbaric #because

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#believe #blood #dance #heart #i

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#hamburg #i #like #live #looks

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#because #black #colour #director #dumb

I don't look at fashion shows on the internet because it's too flat. ↗

— Stefano Gabbana

#fashion #flat #i #internet #look

Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money. ↗

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

#blood #both #forth #had #libya

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#i #last #look #lost #once

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#different #granted #know #less #like

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#does #flaws #get #highest #i