Patricia T. O'Conner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.
Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.
All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.
In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.

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