"I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself."

-- Cynthia Voigt

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Grades Quotes

“If you have unity without variety, you have uniformity and that's boring. If you have variety without unity, you have anarchy.”
“When I look out the window at my backyard, I can't think of anything interesting to ask. I mean, it's green, it's growing-but nothing occurs to me that any concentrated effort of thought could possibly enlighten. Whereas in economic, statistical, or mathematical kinds of things, I can think lots of questions.”

Source : "Inside the Crisis" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. October 12, 2009.
“Mentally, I'm not ever going to go away.”
“There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.”
“Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mouable, as also Copernicus by way of supposition, and not for that he thought so in deede: who affirmeth that the earth turneth about, and that the sunne standeth still in the midst of the heauens, by help of which false supposition he hath made truer demonstrations of the motions and reuolutions of the celestiall Spheares, than euer were made before. . . .”
“My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.”
“Ideas move fast when their time comes.”
“For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement”

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