"I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer."

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Source : Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2007.

Will Self

#Healthy Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Appetite Quotes

“No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.”
“When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.”

Source : Langston Hughes (2004). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel plays, operas, and later dramatic works”, p.201, University of Missouri Press
“Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!”
“Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.”
“I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.”
“I'm not one of those Star Wars guys that has seen [my favorite movie] 97 times.”
“Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.”
“Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.”

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