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“She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.”
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“There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.”
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“Remember that the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating. Everyday we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely.”
Source : Ian Lowe (2005). “A Big Fix: Radical Solutions for Australia's Environmental Crisis”, p.108, Black Inc.
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“Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.”
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“You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.”
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“The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.”
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“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
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“You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.”
Source : Gwen Bristow (2014). “Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel”, p.133, Open Road Media
