"Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy."

“The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People read the poetry when it was written. In Ireland, there was a poor literacy rate and people remember that poetry. That was handed on as a memorial tradition.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.”

“There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.”

Source : Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

“Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine.”

“time stood still. I fell into that beloved space that writers fall into, the reason most write, as it's better than drugs or alcohol ... a high without hangover, an affair without pain.”

“Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.”

“To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.”

“The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.”