"For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research."

-- Patricia Briggs

#Real Quotes #Reading Quotes #Research Quotes

“It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music”
“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”

Source : Murder in the Cathedral pt. 1 (1935)
“I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.”
“Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.”
“I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.”
“Because if you remember - and people forget this - the first two years of Game of Thrones everybody was going, "I don't know what's going on, but I really like it." And you really didn't know what to make of a lot of people, and now it's changed and people aren't really talking about that. Now it's like you're watching West Wing or Friends, you know the characters and you're like, "What in the world is going to happen?"”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A good woman must constantly resist alluring and deceptive messages from many sources telling her that she is entitled to more time away from her responsibilities and that she deserves a life of greater ease and independence. But with personal revelation, she can prioritize correctly and navigate this life confidently.”
“Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had left behind them down South and they liked it because it was just like a letter from home.”

Source : Mahalia Jackson, Evan McLeod Wylie (1966). “Movin' on Up”, New York : Hawthorn Books

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