"It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books."

-- Margaret Mahy

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“A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.”
“What I'm trying to do is be righteous. And when I say â€œrighteous,â€ I don't mean God. You know? God- Righteous. I mean just when I wake up, I know I was honest to myself.”
“My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.”
“Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.”
“The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.”
“It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.”

Source : Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”
“To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty”
“There's just not that many videos I want to watch.”

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