"I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me."

-- Carl Sandburg

#Hard Work Quotes #Writing Quotes #Past Quotes

“Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.”
“Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.”
“A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.”

Source : Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.7
“I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone know that an actor creates a character.”

Source : "'Growing Pains' Cast Reunion". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 7, 2006.
“One reason to fashion a story is to lift a grudge.”

Source : Bobbie Ann Mason (2013). “Clear Springs: A Memoir”, p.385, Random House
“To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.”
“Some stories are true that never happened.”
“Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel its a very honest emotion.”

Source : "Here's What Happened When Gillian Flynn Interviewed Rosamund Pike About Gone Girl for Glamour's October Issue". Interview with Gillian Flynn, www.glamour.com. September 9, 2014.

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