"The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front."

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Source : "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". The Australian Women's Weekly Interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.

Tobsha Learner

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“Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.”

Source : Ethan Hawke (2002). “Ash Wednesday”, p.104, Vintage
“Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.”

Source : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).
“Man can learn everything if he will but try.”
“I try to photograph thoughts.”
“With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.”
“Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints.”
“To feel is to communicate with your Spirit-with God. Feeling is God's mirror; intuition is God's telephone. To seek your truth is to deepen your connection to Spirit.”
“Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.”

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