"I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing."

-- Thomas Perry

#Jobs Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.”
“I think a lot of the work I've done and a lot of the work I'm going to do in the future still ties to 9/11 and the fallout from it.”
“Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.”
“Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as complete a view as is possible anywhere of the way scientific method can be applied to psychological problems. Secondly, it is of immense practical importance, educationally, socially, and in regard to physiology and genetics.”
“Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.”

Source : Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.157, Hachette UK
“Men and women do not posses visions of the future. They are possesed by them.”
“People in misery is what most important in art.”
“When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.”

Source : Quoted in Edmond Claris De l'impressionisme en sculpture, 'Medardo Rosso' (1902).

You may also like:

Clive Cussler
Novelist
Don Winslow
Author
John Lescroart
Author
John Sandford
Novelist
Lawrence Block
Writer
Michael Connelly
Author
Otto Penzler
Editor
Robert Crais
Author
T. Jefferson Parker
Novelist