"Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write."

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Source : "Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer". Book by Roy Peter Clark, January 10, 2008.

Roy Peter Clark

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“Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.”
“I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn't really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn't a TV person.”
“The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.”
“Spontaneity has its time and its place.”
“What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express. Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.”
“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.”
“I think it's never too late to learn - or it's a lesson that's good to continue learning - that you need to treat everyone on a set with respect.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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