"My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry."

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Source : Jan Karon (2006). “The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.”, p.72, Penguin

Jan Karon

#Writing Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Hungry Quotes

“The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.”
“It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.”
“Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.”
“Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.”
“And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.”
“If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?”

Source : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.324, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not correct in ourselves; we do this either because we are unaware of the evil that exists within us, or because we always see our own evil disguised as a good.”
“Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.”

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