"There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come."

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Source : Carolyn Hart (2009). “Dead Man's Island”, p.318, Crimeline

Carolyn Hart

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“Sometimes all it takes to stop traffic is for that right pair of red pumps.”
“I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himselfâ€”when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve. I wonder what it feels like to volunteer to forget everything.”

Source : Vikas Swarup (2008). “Slumdog Millionaire: A Novel”, p.258, Simon and Schuster
“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”
“An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.”

Source : Married Love ch. 5 (1918)
“I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.”
“The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.”

Source : Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.2, Book Tree
“I've never really presumed to know what my fans want or like. When I'm making the music, I just chase whatever I find interesting that day and luckily there are people who find it interesting as well.”
“Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.”

Source : Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940, September 6, 1890.

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