Sydney Lea famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I laughed out loud and shook my head, "You're crazy!" He nodded, "About you.
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.
I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

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