"Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory."

-- Irwin Shaw

#Writing Quotes #Novelists Quotes #Different Quotes

“Work while others are wishing.”
“Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.”
“The performances make you want to get back out there and try something new and challenge yourself.”
“Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if I want. Growing up has some negative connotations. Like, you're not supposed to roll around on the ground anymore. You're not supposed to make fun of yourself. You're not supposed to ride a bicycle. But I'm a Toys-R-Us kid.”
“Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.”
“If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.”

Source : "LeMond: Armstrong ‘manipulated the cancer community’". CNN Interview, www.velonews.com. October 22, 2013.
“I always want to rock.”
“Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.”

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