In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes ask badly celebration
As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion. Joanna Scott benefitchildconfusion Change image and share on social
When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity. Joanna Scott concoctionconfessiondeliberate share on social
I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space. Joanna Scott arrangebelongbumbler share on social
This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi celebrationglassgood share on social
It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly. Pierce Brosnan badlydangerousgood Change image and share on social