Barsys Quotes & Sayings

A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise. — Chris Baty

What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film. — Tilda Swinton

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. — Robin Hobb

Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one ... I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence. — Akira Kurosawa

I've never touched Auggie Pullman, it's only because I've never had a reason to - that's all!) Nobody — R.J. Palacio

The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration. — Paul Brunton

What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa? — Stewart O'Nan