"When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading."

-- Graham Swift

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Treading Quotes

“England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.”
“Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday you build another fence around your minds.”
“I want him to know I love him. I want him to feel that we both tried, but this was way too big for us: we aren't going to survive this. Even if I hadn't done what I did with Mal, almost all the strings of our marriage have been severed; waiting together to say goodbye is the last one. Once it has been cut, only love will remain. And it takes more than love--no matter how fervent, deep and passionate--to keep two people together.”
“Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.”
“Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance”
“Life's too short not to forgive.”
“For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made”
“The farmer doesn't sow any seed; he chooses it carefully for by experience he knows that the harvest will be of the same Nature of the sowing. The wise man observes the laws of life and lives accordingly. Therefore, you sow in the furrow of life generous and beneficial procedures for all that according to the law your harvest, being good will make your life better.”

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