"The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare."

-- Wilkie Collins

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“[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through its various page-proof passes-ranks among the most unnerving of my young life. It has not felt good, or freeing. It has felt nerve-shreddingly disquieting. Publication simply allows one that much more to worry about. This cannot be said to aspiring writers often or sternly enough. Whatever they carry within themselves they believe publication cures will not, I can all but guarantee, be cured. You just wind up with new diseases.”
“Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In nonfiction, particularly that which takes personal narrative for its primary topic, I have a finite space and a finite amount of material. I can't fabricate material, I can only shape and burrow into it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be 'protectors' of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.”
“There's no real formula for doing it, it's either just living life and writing down a joke you think of in the middle of the day and then pieces those together later.”
“If you're a writer, you want to get your soul out there, where people can look at it.”
“The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.”

Source : "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 2, p. 919, 1946.
“We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.”

Source : Joseph Howe (1858). “Speeches and Public Letters”, p.39
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be”

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