"The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor."

-- Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.

#Dream Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Editors Quotes

“I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.”
“[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.”
“It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically .”
“Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan”
“You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.”
“Archaeology is a science, and like all sciences, has its limitations. For one, archaeological discoveries made in the past centuries have been reappraised and reinterpreted by more recent findings. Some of the older positive claims, as well as most of the negative criticisms of the Bible, have changed, usually for the better. For another, the actual amount of archaeological evidence is quite small. It has been estimated that less than 1% of archaeological sites in the Holy Land have been excavated, and those that have been excavated have only been partially excavated.”
“Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream”
“Being in love is a very strange thing. Your thoughts constantly drift towards this other person, no matter what you're doing.”

Source : "The Power of Six (The Lorien Legacies, Book 2)". Book by Pittacus Lore (James Frey and Jobie Hughes), August 23, 2011.

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