Aust > Aust's Quotes

“What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
― William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

“Upbeat people have no need of pleasantries. They barely notice them. Only the tired and depressed truly appreciate good manners, and cling to them in desperation.”
― Mike Collier, Baltic Byline

“Some people's happiness is always other people's kitsch.”
― Pascal Bruckner, Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy

“Whatever we do, someone is going to take the time to say it's shit.”
― Virginie Despentes

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
― Richard Bach