"I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are times when one can't write, one shouldn't write, times for thought, for deepening, or just reading, or simply living."

-- Stanley Crawford

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The King walks. He nods. His glance is like God's touch - under it all things spring to life. A wave of his hand and a hundred musicians tear into the Handel, making a sound you've never heard before, and never will again. A sound that goes through you, through flesh and bone, and reorders the very beat of your heart.”
“The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.”
“We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.”
“Yea, he's alright...but he's no Zach Braff.”
“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”

Source : "Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer: 'I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid'" by Justin Cartwright, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 14, 2014.
“A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.”
“Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.”

Source : John Derbyshire (2009). “We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism”, p.234, Crown Forum
“You don't need a reason to divorce someone you can't stand.”

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