"A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic."

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Source : Quentin Bell (1990). “Virginia Woolf: a biography”, Vintage

Quentin Bell

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“No one can say I married my husband for his money. I married him because he's a beautiful art object.”
“If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.”

Source : Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.9, Quirk Books
“Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.”
“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”
“A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet.”
“False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.”

Source : "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.
“I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice.”

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