"To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way."

-- Michael Connelly

#Change Quotes #Memories Quotes #Book Quotes

“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.”
“Love is primarily giving. Itâ€™s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.”
“Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.”
“Retail is selling things that don't come back to customers who do.”
“It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in clouds and rainbows, and as people too. Are they walking on this earth as people in disguise? Or do they appear for that one moment and vanish into ether again? Or is it really us, mere humans, who for a moment are picked up by the hand of God and made to speak unwittingly the words another needs to hear, or to hold out a life line to another soul?”

Source : Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.44, Penguin
“The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further”
“AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue.”
“Pretend that I ain't in fact/Coming off like a thin hat/Where strong wind at”

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