I have great fears. I’m terrified of guns. I’m terrified of heights, so I write about bridge-builders and gunfighters.
– Michael Ondaatje
Tag: great
Quotable 452
The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings.
– Arundhati Roy
Quotable 451
In order to create the universal you must pay very great attention to the specific.
– Lorraine Hansberry
Quotable 433
The true influence of a great novel is to say to a subsequent novelist, Go thou and do otherwise.
– Julian Barnes