"The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much mainland Europe, for example."

-- Zia Haider Rahman

#Writing Quotes #World Quotes

“I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.”
“Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.”
“To me, pictures are about memory.”
“In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.”
“Never forget is not something you say on a prescribed day; if it is real it is something you live the rest of your life”
“I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he was the only reason my guts were being strewn over the water like an oil slick ... I pressed one last time, and looked at the finish-line flagman. In that instant the flag jumped down and then up. The up stroke, identifying the second place finisher, was for me. John Biglow was the victor. I stared into the green-brown water watching my bloody soul drop through the depths, slowly rocking back and forth, occasionally glinting in the light, and then finally disappearing.”
“My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.”
“Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.”

Source : Nancy Pearcey (2015). “Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”, p.59, David C Cook

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