"I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success."

-- Richard North Patterson

#Years Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Quitting Quotes

“A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.”
“I've never done too much inquiry into angels.”
“You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.”
“There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life.”
“Be trustworthy. Steadiness and integrity lead to energetic opening in the other as the blocks in relating dissolve away with deepening trust over time.”
“For me, I enjoy intimidating people and I enjoy being intimidated. It is exciting. It's cool to have an experience with someone where you challenge them, and they are afraid, and then they love you and they've grown. When that happens to me, I feel so blessed if somebody has opened my world up a little bit more.”
“Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.”
“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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