"I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing."

-- Tony Judt

#Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Done Quotes

“I believe everything has a solution, and I take it one day at a time or one thing at a time.”
“It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.”
“Leaders should not just talk about - but walk the walk of - fiscal conservatism.”
“It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.160, Harvard University Press
“I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.”
“Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.”
“The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother to show it to my agent or editor. He's a truly great writer - author of Gates of the Alamo and other books you might know of, and his instincts about what's working in a story, and what's not, are just about perfect. My books would be very different without his influence.”

Source : Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com
“The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.”

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