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“I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.”
Source : Annie Fellows Johnston (1901). “The Little Colonel's House Party”, p.183, Pelican Publishing
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“Love what you are doing because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.”
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“It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.”
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“That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.”
Source : "Gateway". Book by Frederik Pohl, 1978.
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“In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.”
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“I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.”
Source : Craig Claiborne (1982). “Craig Claiborne's A feast made for laughter”, Doubleday Books
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“My dad, who was creative director in the '60s, always wore black jeans with black desert boots; he thought he was cool. He told me to buy a pair as well. I didn't like black, so I got the sand color, and I've been wearing them since college.”
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“I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.”
