"The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again."

-- Eudora Welty

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“All great and precious things are lonely.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.458, Penguin
“A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.”
“Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading.”

Source : "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book". Book by Joseph Hertz, Evening Service for Sabbaths (p. 381),
“Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.”
“A person may use his fundamental right to communicate whatever he likes, but the people like his point as per their personal choice only and not necessarily that which is always fundamentally right.”
“Money always has been something that has attracted itself to me.”
“Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts--she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary peoples' lives, and knits them into unforgettable tales. Find the Good is a treasure.”
“At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1860). “The Money-king: And Other Poems”, p.171

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