"Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure."

-- Maxwell Perkins

#Writing Quotes #Successful Quotes #Light Quotes

“I'm really good at building things that shoot, hurl, or throw stuff.”
“If fertility drops much below 2.1 babies per woman, the population will shrink unless it is offset by higher immigration. For this reason, a demographic cloud hangs over China. It may be the first country to grow old before it grows rich. ... Its fertility rate is below two and its working-age population will start to decline around 2015.”
“Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .”
“Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.”
“I can't worry about what other people say.”
“Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.”
“How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.”
“Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.”

Source : "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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