"I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them."

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Source : Roger A. Caras (1982). “A Celebration of Dogs”, Crown

Roger Caras

#Dog Quotes #Dog Lover Quotes #Indebted Quotes

“You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.”
“We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.”
“As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.”
“Thereâ€™s a writer for you,â€ he said. â€œKnows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.â€ [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writersâ€”because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answerâ€”still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers arenâ€™t people exactly. Or, if theyâ€™re any good, theyâ€™re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. Itâ€™s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward tryingâ€”only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.”
“Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesnâ€™t work, throw it away.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“Saviour! teach me, day by day,Love's sweet lesson to obey;Sweeter lesson cannot be,Loving Him who first loved me.Charity is the very livery of Christ.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 395, 1895.
“Being, not doing, is my first joy.”
“For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with the details, he's finished. The attitude of co-workers, the indifference of superiors, the poor quality of the equipment - all of it pales if you still love the job; all of it matters if you don't.”

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