"the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor."

-- Jasper Fforde

#Real Quotes #Book Quotes #Editors Quotes

“I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.”
“And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over.”
“Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.”
“family relationships have made me so ill!”
“The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it: their deepest, darkest wounds, their desperation and mistrust, and their rawest emotional trigger points. Just as the sun's warmth causes clouds to arise by prompting the earth to release its moisture, so love's pure openness activates the thick clouds of our emotional wounding, the tight places where we are shut down, where we live in fear and resist love.”
“The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August”
“I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.”
“When in doubt, leave it out.”

Source : "Joshua Bloch: A conversation about design". Interview with Bill Venners, www.javaworld.com. January 4, 2002.

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