Panda Incognito

“No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”
― Alberto Moravia

“Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

— Walter Benjamin, "Unpacking My Library”
― Phillip Lopate, The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present

“The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose