"I would rather be the hammer than the anvil"

-- Erwin Rommel

#Hammers Quotes #Anvils Quotes

“Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. Thatâ€™s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being trapped in a room for ten hours with those characters. Think of your main characters as dinner guests. Would your friends want to spend ten hours with the characters youâ€™ve created? Your characters can be loveable, or they can be evil, but theyâ€™d better be compelling. If not, your reader will be bored and leave.”

Source : "Advice on Writing". www.pobronson.com.
“Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.”
“I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.”

Source : "Etta James: 'I was like a punker ... I'd spit in a minute' - a classic interview from the vaults" by Cliff White, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2012.
“I think that Rodney Stark puts his foot wrong on some things where he simply wasn't sufficiently current on scholarly developments.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.”
“I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left.”
“Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.”
“There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.”

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