#vie

The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, The Heather Blazing. He said that, together with the previous novel, it represented a diptych about the aftermath of Irish independence. I simply hadn't known that – and I loved the grandeur of the word "diptych". I went around quite snooty for a few days, thinking: "I wrote a diptych." [Colm Tóibín, Novelist – Portrait of the Artist, The Guardian, 19 February 2013] ↗

— Colm Tóibín

#conceit #critique #diptychs #grandeur #novelists

I hate being told I can't do something because I'm a girl! ↗

— Thanhha Lai

#insideoutandbackagain #life #love #refugees #saigon

Bien différente eut été leur vie s'ils avaient su à temps qu'il est plus facile de contourner les grandes catastrophes conjugales que les minuscules misères de tous les jours. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#mariage #misère #vie-conjuguale #love

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy. ↗

— Björk

#females #feminism #film #gender #men

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#stevie-wonder #world #music

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#movie #movies

Book your life choices in advance the same way you would book flights, car rentals, hotels, and excursions. Figure out early on in your career whether you intend to be financially independent or marry a rich man, join the ranks of the professional elite or be the stay-at- home type, postpone having children or find part-time employment. Then fasten your seat belt and sit tight as you watch your trajectory veer off course. ↗

— Veronique Vienne

#veronique-vienne #art

Never judge a book by its movie. ↗

— J.W. Eagan

#movie #reading #reading-books #movies

I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#views #change

You ignorant little rodent! This isn't just an old book. This is the book of Everafter." "Sorry, I haven't read it. I'm waiting for the movie," Puck said. ↗

— Michael Buckley

#sisters-grimm #movies