"I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are."

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Source : Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

Robert Cormier

#Writing Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.”
“The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.”
“I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.”
“Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.”
“Don't get depressed when you read the press about world revolution and social unrest. Try not to panic when you switch on the news and see crooked politicians and unemployment queues.”
“No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.”
“You know what I think? I think there's a reason for everything. And I think that there's a plan for everyone. And I think that God has a big plan for me. Just not in this life.”
“I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.”

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