"I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are."

-- Jean M. Auel

#Writing Quotes #Influence Quotes

“The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.”
“Everything you want to be, do or have comes from love.”
“I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.”
“We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think about how we stack up, how we sit on top of each other. How we pray that we know what we're up to.”
“Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of its weird laws and customs. It is a book as unique as it is wonderfully strange.”
“You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.”
“Always make new mistakes.”
“I think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!"”

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