"Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country."

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Source : "Colm Tóibín, novelist - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2013.

Colm Toibin

#Running Quotes #Country Quotes #Military Quotes

“I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.”
“There is that great proverb â€” that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
“If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.”
“The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.”

Source : Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.
“The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country.”
“Always live your life with one dream to fulfill. No matter how many of your dreams you have realized in the past, always have a dream to go. Because when you stop dreaming, life becomes a mundane existence.”
“You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.”
“I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.”

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