Vidakatsavidi Quotes & Sayings

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for [Barack] Obama but also for the Democrats. — John Howard

Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think. — Marlene Van Niekerk

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. — Dennis Potter

Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city. — Geraldine Ferraro

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us. — Susan Glaspell

Our patience will achieve more than our force. — Edmund Burke

I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life. — Jacob Aue Sobol

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting. — Miranda July