The crime novel is where the social novel went. If you want to write about the underbelly of America, if you want to write about the second America that nobody wants to look at, you turn to the crime novel.
Dennis Lehane
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy
Work isn’t to make money. You work to justify life.
Marc Chagall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Chagall
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Constantin Brâncuşi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Br%C3%A2ncu%C8%99i
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.
John Neal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Neal_(writer)
Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Gustav Flaubert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It’s like passing around examples of sputum.
Vladimir Nabokov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov
