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“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”
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“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”
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“Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.”
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“Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.”
Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster
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“I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.”
Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Dec 16, 2011 
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“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”
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“If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.”
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“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”
Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”
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“When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.”
