"Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three."

-- Patrick Rothfuss

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“I've seen some players with very big feet, and some with very small feet”

Source : "Swells Awardz 2005" by Steven Wells, www.theguardian.com. December 21, 2005.
“Places that are empty of you are empty of life.”

Source : Paul Spencer-Longhurst, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (2000). “The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s”, Scala Books
“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.”
“stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.”
“"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."”
“... the People of God have to elect public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public, and that those who can't tell the difference don't belong in public office.”
“I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.”

Source : "Stella Maeve On 'Golden Boy' and Being Named After Stella Adler". Interview with Shelley Brown, www.backstage.com. February 21, 2013.
“In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.”

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