"It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Writing Quotes #Funny Things Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“I wasnâ€™t raised, I was built.”
“The parallels between Elvis and Michael Jackson as incredible artists is evident. But I think that where Michael Jackson even transcends Elvis Presley.”
“Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.”
“When I write my book, Ill tell the real story of Cheryl”
“I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time I read arguments which gave me some food for thought. At all events, these occasions slowly made me acquainted with the man and the movement, which in those days guided Vienna's destinies: Dr. Karl Lueger and the Christian Social Party.”
“Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.”

Source : Peter Shaffer (1993). “Amadeus: A Drama”, Samuel French, Inc.
“Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion.”
“If I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save five billion lives.”

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