"Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music's mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I'm writing, but it's also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music."

-- Charles de Lint

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“FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands, beats egg white under her words and the whole thing rises like a dream. It's a love story for her people and for a time and place. Read it.”
“I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And theyâ€™re humble.”

Source : "Are You a C.E.O. of Something?". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 2010.
“My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.”
“I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.”
“The world is bigger than all the parts. That's the important thing, and one thing can throw everything off kilter. And you must never let yourself off. You'll let yourself off by mistake. So you shouldn't do it consciously. You have to be above it all and just be very disciplined with it. Just be very disciplined with it.”
“First we love within, then we love the world.”
“The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.”
“My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is left-handedness, which also, as it happens, used to be regarded as some sort of defect in a normatively right-handed humanity.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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