"Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a classmate, someone who shares your interests. Before sending off the manuscript for a novel to a publishing house, it would be a good idea to try writing short stories, and publishing them in a local magazine."

-- Dacia Maraini

#Writing Quotes #Publishing House Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.”
“If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.”
“He asked himself those some questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was”

Source : Spencer Johnson (1998). “Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life”, p.26, Penguin
“To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.”
“My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach.”
“I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.”
“Even with most finite planning you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.”
“Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.”

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