H. Givens

“No one would ever say, "Come and join us, Caroline," so I would then spend the rest of the lunch period feeling sorry for myself and trying to remember that the lonely children like me are the ones who grow up to be someone that everyone wishes they could be.”
― Kheryn Callender, Hurricane Child

“Everybody works according to his ability, some doing more, some doing less, but everyone ought to know whether he is doing good or harm. Artists are not released from that obligation, especially as there are no works of art which do neither harm nor good. If a book, a picture or a melody is accepted by a reader, a spectator or a listener, it means that the reader, spectator or listener has had his emotions stirred; and emotions must be either harmful or useful. They cannot be neutral.”
― Sergei Obraztsov, My Profession

“Everybody works according to his ability, some doing more, some doing less, but everyone ought to know whether he is doing good or harm.”
― Sergei Obraztsov, My Profession

“Does [a book] inform? Not at all. One must go to it, one must make an effort. It gives one the means to inform oneself.”
― Eugène Morel