"I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace."

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Teddy Wayne

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.”
“There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, sad or happy, fool...ish or wise must finally come to an end. It is from this sobering reality that the end of executive rule has finally come for Robert Mugabe who has had his better days after a quarter of a century in power.”
“There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.”
“Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.”
“Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.”
“Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.”
“The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not strong enough to appreciate in what the good succeeds. To be without discrimination is to be unable to praise. The critic who lets you know that he always looks for something to like in works he discusses is not telling you anything about the works or about art; he is saying 'see what a nice person I am.”

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