"I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction."

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Source : Elizabeth Gaskell (2009). “The Life of Charlotte Brontë”, p.10, OUP Oxford

Elizabeth Gaskell

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“Behind every word flows energy. If you use your words to gossip or babble about what you are going to do before you do it, then you are siphoning off the energy needed to actually do the work. Your words become an energy leak.”

Source : Sonia Choquette (2010). “Your Heart's Desire: Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Want”, p.183, Crown Archetype
“Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.”
“At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries. Fantasy changes with the changing times, and yet it is still the oldest kind of tale in the world, for it began once upon a time, and we haven't heard the end of it yet.”

Source : Patricia A. McKillip (2016). “Dreams of Distant Shores”, p.266, Tachyon Publications
“I don't know the difference between a warm color and a cool one.”
“When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is a weariness that comes. I can be with someone and everything is fine and then all of a sudden it can wash over me like a sickness, that I need the quiet of my own self. I need to unload my head and look at what I've got in there so far. See it. Think what it means. I always need to come back to being alone for a while.”
“Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no longer have the same power over me. Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.”
“Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.”
“The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.”

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