"One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened."

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Source : Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

Nina Bawden

#Writing Quotes #Age Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”
“Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.”
“I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.”
“I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.”
“When love has carried us above all things into the Divine Dark, there we are transformed by the Eternal Word Who is the image of the Father; and as the air is penetrated by the sun, thus we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us, and penetrating us.”
“I don't relax, I don't celebrate. I sit and plot.”
“I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.

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