Ikra Amesta

“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.”
― Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives

“I discovered that everything you do is in response to a request or a suggestion made to you by some other party either inside you or outside. Some of these suggestions are good and praiseworthy and some of them are undoubtedly delightful. But the majority of them are definitely bad and are pretty considerable sins as sins go.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

“Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

“People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer