"The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one..."

-- Lawrence Block

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes #World Quotes

“I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.”
“As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.”
“People are always pleased to indulge their religiosity when it allows them to stand in judgment of someone else, licenses them to feel superior to someone else, tells them they are more righteous than someone else. They are less enthusiastic when religiosity demands that they be compassionate to someone else. That they show charity, service and mercy to everyone else.”
“I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.”
“I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.”
“If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?”
“My lips are chapped from the winds of change.”

Source : Sarah Vowell (2013). “Radio On: A Listener's Diary”, p.10, St. Martin's Griffin
“If I was going to go out tonight, I was going to go out fighting. Or screaming in agony. Either way.”

Source : Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.346, St. Martin's Press

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