"When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous."

-- Merrill Markoe

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.”
“Celebrity is something I've never been into, and never will be.”

Source : "Hill's alive with the sound of music" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2004.
“Nor is heaven always at peace.”
“I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher”
“In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money... that was my reality.”
“When someone starts to change, and itâ€™s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right?”
“Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.”
“Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer capitalist despair-may confidently be anticipated. History is as simple a that.”

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