"As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels."

-- Daniel H. Wilson

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“What particular experiences will nourish your soul? No one can prescribe that for you; it is something only you can know and experience. What is satisfying for one person may be just the opposite for someone else. Being out in nature, by the seashore, or on a mountaintop works for me. Communing with nature brings me into soul time. But for others, being out in nature is something to be tolerated, or even an ordeal, or just what you do if you're a member of a family that goes camping.”
“I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.”
“Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.66, ETT Imprint
“If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die, that the free choice to join together is no more significant than the free choice to part, and to look for love elsewhere; those married out of duty expect less love to begin with, and what duty has brought together, duty may keep together.”
“In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Rose Tremain, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.
“And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.”
“Every soul who comes to earth with a leg or two at birth must wrestle his opponents knowing its not what is, but what can be that measures worth. Make it hard, just make it possible and through pain, I wont complain. My spirit is unconquerable. Fearless I will face each foe for I know I am capable. I don't care whatsï»¿ probable, through blood sweat and tears I am unstoppable.”

Source : "Jay Leno Honors Anthony Robles". www.hollywoodreporter.com. 2011.
“The soul is never less alone than when it is alone with God.”

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