Vellanikaran Quotes & Sayings

For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work. — Steve Erickson

The hand that follows intellect can achieve. — Michelangelo

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. — Samuel Richardson

Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali literature'. But though the (male) establishment used this label of erotica to dismiss her work, the sex scenes have exactly the same transgressive function as her use of chronology and narrative voice. — Deborah Smith

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world. — Susan Sontag

When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down. — Yotam Ottolenghi

The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's very exceptional. I don't know anyone who doesn't enjoy a good sermon. People who are completely nonreligious know a good sermon when they hear one. — Marilynne Robinson

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer. — David Guterson

Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand. — Robert Jervis

After listening to so called experts it's not until you reach the end of the road that you begin to realise you've been taken down the wrong road. — Lou Silluzio

Well, you're real brave, real stupid, or real lucky. — S.E. Hinton

Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time. — Tom Peters