Qasimov Yaqub Quotes & Sayings

In this day and age, you can write anywhere in the world. You can really live anywhere and have the same career. — Chevy Stevens

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In the darkness, her dark body grows darker
until I am making love to her and her shadow. — Sherman Alexie

Life is all about the journey. — P.M. Terrell

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics. — Ama Ata Aidoo

Why do you wear gloves, Mister Brekker?"
Kaz raised a brow. "I'm sure you've heard the stories."
"Each more grotesque than the last."
Kaz had heard them, too. Brekker's hands were stained with blood. Brekker's hands were covered in scars. Brekker had claws and not fingers because he was part demon. Brekker's touch burned like brimstone - a single brush of his bare skin caused your flesh to wither and die.
"Pick one," Kaz said as he vanished into the night, thoughts already turning to thirty million kruge and the crew he'd need to help him get it. "They're all true enough. — Leigh Bardugo

People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: 'It's just the way I sound when I sing.' — Michael Franks

Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darren Groth puts the reader into the heads of Perry and Justine in a way that feels so true and so revealing that I think I've come away with a greater capacity for empathy. I didn't know a book could do that. We all need to spend some time inside this story. — Nick Earls

This is the price we pay, that the only way to take our life is death. — Stebby Julionatan

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others. — Democritus

Every writer is obliged to create his own language, as every violinist is obliged to create his own "tone" ... . I don't mean to say that I like original writers who write badly. I prefer - and perhaps it's a weakness - those who write well. But they begin to write well only on condition that they're original, that they create their own language. Correctness, perfection of style do exist, but on the other side of originality, after having gone through all the faults, not this side. Correctness this side - "discreet emotion," "smiling good nature," "most abominable of all years" - doesn't exist. The only way to defend language is to attack it, yes, yes, Madame Straus! — Alain De Botton