"I've had failures, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't beneath me to pick up the phone and introduce myself to Bernard Malamud and say, "I'd like to introduce myself to you and to come meet you. I think I might have something that's worthy of your skills as a writer.""

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Source : Interview with Suzanne Snider, believermag.com. May 2010.

Lawrence Schiller

#Thinking Quotes #Phones Quotes #Skills Quotes

“Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.”
“Each of our cells is a living entity, and the main thing that influences them is our blood. If I open my eyes in the morning and my beautiful partner is in front of me, my perception causes a release of oxytocin, dopamine, growth hormones - all of which encourage the growth and health of my cells. But if I see a saber tooth tiger, I'm going to release stress hormones which change the cells to a protection mode. People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes.”

Source : "Energy Healed Me - Over the Phone! A Scientist Explains How". Interview with Meryl Davids Landau, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.
“For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.”
“Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.”
“A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.”
“The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.”
“Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.”
“As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.”

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