"The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method."

-- Kelly Link

#Editors Quotes #Stories Quotes #Panic Quotes

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.”

Source : Marriage and Morals ch. 5 (1929)
“A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.”
“The only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people to discover the power latent in the cooperative roles that they play in a range of institutions.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Happy to me is not what I thought happy was. Happy is actually better, because it includes room for sadness. A definition of success must leave room for failure, because it's part of it.”
“Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.”

Source : John Scalzi (2012). “Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas”, p.167, Macmillan
“I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.”

Source : "Testimony to the Inquisition". Translation by Charles Yriarte, July 18, 1573.
“I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I canâ€™t afford to forget.”

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