Fiddling Including

Famous quotes containing the words fiddling and/or including:

“He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face towards the flames.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)