"From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books."

-- George Orwell

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“You say you're worried about kids? I'm not worried about kids, I'm worried about grown ups... Children are not the problem here... We spend the first year of their lives teaching them how to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.”
“Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.”

Source : "Next Factor Q&A: 'The Lucky One' Star Taylor Schilling". Interview with Robert Desalvo, www.mtv.com. April 16, 2012.
“Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.”
“My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him.”
“And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.”
“It's a completely reasonable diet -- heavy on fruits and vegetables and fresh, seasonal foods. I'm totally for it. It's common sense in a nice package.”
“I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.”
“I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.”

You may also like:

Aldous Huxley
Writer
Charles Dickens
Writer
Ernest Hemingway
Author
H. G. Wells
Writer
James Joyce
Novelist
John Steinbeck
Author
Mark Twain
Author
Oscar Wilde
Writer
Ray Bradbury
Writer