"Speed is not an indicator of quality in terms of fiction. That's true of one's relative slowness or swiftness - taking 10 years to write a book or taking 10 days to write a book (or a comic or a film or an angry postcard) guarantees nothing in terms of how good or how bad that story is."

-- Chuck Wendig

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.”

Source : C. J. Sansom (2008). “Revelation”, p.259, Pan Macmillan
“Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.”
“People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.”
“Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.”
“If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see clearly what it means. Then check the theorem; it could be false. Examine the consequences, verify as many particular instances as are needed to convince yourself of the truth. When you have satisfied yourself that the theorem is true, you can start proving it.”
“I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.”
“Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.”
“I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.”

Source : "How Julie Bowen Sparks Up Her Life" by Alison Prato, www.health.com. September 20, 2012.

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