"Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement."

-- Harlan Coben

#Encouragement Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“We have to use our freedoms and privileges to see what respite we can give to those less equipped to deal with their challenges.”

Source : Chloe Hooper (2009). “Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
“The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel, a play, or an opera can engage our emotions on behalf of people who are not only strangers to us, but who do not even exist! And a person whose emotions cannot be so aroused is not behaving normally.”
“The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.”

Source : Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.
“I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I started to see the ways in which work in the cognitive sciences could inform our understanding of central epistemological issues, my whole idea of what the philosophical enterprise is all about began to change. Quine certainly played a role here, as did Putnam's (pre-1975) work in philosophy of science, and the exciting developments that went on in that time in philosophy of mind.”
“Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.”
“Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?”
“We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us”

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