"By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit."

-- John Newcombe

#Writing Quotes #Feet Quotes #Tongue Quotes

“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.”
“I used to be a lawyer and I quit the practice of law to start writing and one of the reasons that I did that was I had an older sister who was too sick, who had breast cancer and it just got me to this moment of really looking at my life and saying what do I really want to do? What is really going to make me happy? Do I want to be sixty-five years old looking back and regretting not ever having taken the chance or the risk?”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose these kinds of things. Competition makes us better. Some of our best stores have a Sam's Club next door.”
“Harvesterâ€™s heart soared. Reaver had offered to castrate an archangel for her. How sweet was that?”
“If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.”
“I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldnâ€™t have gone through and couldnâ€™t get back to the place I hadnâ€™t meant to leave.”

Source : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”
“There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.”

Source : Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.25, Harper Collins
“This is the only time in history when I get to fight for God. This is the only part of my eternal story when I am actually in the battle. Once I die, Iâ€™ll be in celebration mode in a glorified body in a whole different set of circumstances. But this is my limited window of opportunity, and Iâ€™m going to fight the good fight for all Iâ€™m worth.”

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