"I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing - one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not."

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Source : LEW WALLACE (1906). “AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY”

Lew Wallace

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Men Quotes

“Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.”
“I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.”
“He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.”
“God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.”
“Disunity costs votes.”

Source : "UK economy has passed darkest moment, says John Major" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.
“I am qualified for this position, have a right to run for it, and am in the race.”
“Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.”
“The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.”

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