"What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that work! Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way."

-- Linda Sue Park

#Reading Quotes #Stories Quotes #World Quotes

“Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases; we have done more; we have increased their mortality. ... I am pursuing Truth, and am indifferent whither I am led, if she is my only leader.”
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”
“I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of attention to editors, but in a different way. They sometimes catch mistakes and help with the order of poems in a book. I do not underestimate them! Indeed, I have been one myself.”
“I just want to continue to play football and be myself.”
“I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.”

Source : "Just don't mention Jane Austen". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2001.
“The worst part is that I saw the whole thing -- our whole life. And I want it bad, Jake, I want it all. I want to stay right here and never move. I want to love you and make you happy. And I can't, and it's killing me.”
“But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left for magic. It's only when you're lost and frightened and in the dark that you call on the Gods, and they like us to call on them. It makes them feel powerful, and that's why they like us to live in chaos.”

Source : Bernard Cornwell (1998). “Enemy of God: A Novel of Arthur”, p.48, Macmillan
“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldnâ€™t have. Maybe thereâ€™s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.347, Pan Macmillan

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