"To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with the running wave, Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low, But only grave, contemplative and grave."

-- Robert Frost

#Running Quotes #Lying Quotes #Snow Quotes

“Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.”
“A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.”
“As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.”

Source : John Gardner, Stewart O'Nan (1994). “On writers and writing”, Addison-Wesley Longman
“Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire!”
“One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.”
“When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.”
“In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.”
“Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.”

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