"We have to diversify, we have to find work we can do that helps other people while helping ourselves, work that has to do with writing that isn't necessarily just writing saleable novels or getting huge advances."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Alice Mattison

#Writing Quotes #Helping Others Quotes #People Quotes

“I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.”
“It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.”
“The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.”

Source : Beth Moore (2009). “Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds”, p.22, B&H Publishing Group
“I don't have a lavish lifestyle with expensive cars.”
“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”
“The only guiding principle you can use is to make something that you want to see.”
“I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them.”
“When I was 18, there were 50 people that I called my friends. Today, there are only three, but I'm glad to have those three. If you have three people that you can really call your friends, then you truly have it made.”

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