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“And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched hut down on Nettle Flitch Field, where Meriam housed the fruits of her shame.”
Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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“I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.”
Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 
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“Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'”
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“Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.”
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“A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere -- even in prison.”
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“Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.”
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“Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.”
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“Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.”
Source : Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.34
