"I think it's dangerous to have lots of time on your hands as a writer. Time to pursue every little alleyway, to follow every single whim. I feel I've done my best writing when I'm stretched for time, when you're most pressured."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Done Quotes

“I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.”
“It's not nothing when you're abroad and you don't have a washing machine.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.
“The greatest misery does not stop Me from uniting Myself to a soul, but where there is pride, I am not there.”
“Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind”
“I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.”
“Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.”

Source : Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Eagle”, p.21, Macmillan
“You look beautiful - David”
“The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.”

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