"Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20"

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Eric Carle

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.”

Source : Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.386, Random House
“Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty.”
“Our enemies - whether Shiite or Sunni - are followers of a totalitarian ideology based on Islam, which tells them that Allah wishes to rule the world through them. Israel is a central front in this war. Given the weakness of Western support for the Jews, jihadists see attacking Israel as a strategic tool for eroding the West's ideological defenses and shoring up their supporters throughout the world.”
“After all, the world is still great.”
“In loving memory from the Family.”
“Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.”
“Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see.”
“I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, ***** that, I'm Harry Potter.”

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