"This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations."

-- Stanley Schmidt

#Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes #Attention Quotes

“The invisible hand is not perfect. Indeed, the invisible hand is a little bit arthritic ... I'm a believer in free markets, but I think we need to be less naÃ¯ve. We need to accept that markets give us pretty good solutions, but occasionally they will lock in something inferior.”
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
“In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.”
“If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.”

Source : Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.170, Penguin
“Brush and ink are only servants of thoughts and emotion. They should follow your emotion and change with the emotion.”
“Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!”
“I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.”

Source : Galen Beckett (2008). “The Magicians and Mrs. Quent”, p.310, Bantam
“Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.”

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