You learn more in failure than you ever do in success
The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.
It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value.
It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.
People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.
Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L. A. as a Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge.
My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name.
The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist