"Don't people know that it's the hardest work in the world? Joseph Conrad said that he had loaded hundredweights of coal all day long on a ship in Amsterdam in the wintertime, and that is was nothing to the energy demanded for a day's work writing."

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Mary Lee Settle

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving.”
“And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.”
“I argue that in the long run, the US would be on a far more financially secure footing if we recalibrate how we spend about two-to-three percent of the country's GNP, using state and federal taxes to create pools of money for spending on America's poor - which would, as numerous economists have argued in recent years, create virtuous spending circles, since those on lower incomes spend more of each extra dollar in their possession than do those on higher incomes.”
“We, as citizens or members of people's organisations, can preserve and nourish basic principles needed for long-term efforts aimed at transforming a totalitarian and war-torn society into a democratic one.”

Source : Katarina Kruhonja's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1998.
“My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.”

Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers
“We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time.”
“Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something”
“Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?”

Source : "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". m.imdb.com. 1978.

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