"I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing."

-- Tanith Lee

#Father Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mad Quotes

“Well, what are we waiting for? ...She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go.”

Source : Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonQuest: A Novel”, p.252, WaterBrook
“Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action.”

Source : William George Jordan (1903). “Great truths”
“[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
“I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.”
“I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.”

Source : "John Benjamin Hickey on 'Manhattan's' Modern Moment, 'Big C' and 'Pitch Perfect'". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 27, 2014.
“People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.”
“It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that”

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