"I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Air Quotes

“Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British conceded that machinery innovation had shifted to America.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.
“Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.”
“Iâ€™m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.”
“Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.”
“Real prayer is communion with God”
“I think the anger that is being directed to universities and so-called elites at universities is actually an anger that's displaced from politicians (who promise to make things better and never do), from employers, it's an anger at the economic system that has put so many of these people out of the kind of work that once was so satisfying to them.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“I'd thought I'd constructed a really wonderful book, and the teacher told me that my story basically began on page fifty, and that I should throw out everything prior, or figure out a way to weave only the most important information back into the story, and keep the action moving forward. Wow. That was a really humbling experience. A real eye-opener. Made me realize there are so many aspects involved with telling a story.”
“We dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did.”

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