"My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway."

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Source : Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. June 02, 2012.

Joanna Trollope

#Growing Up Quotes #Writing Quotes #Advice Quotes

“Generosity helps us cultivate awareness of things that really matter. Opportunities that make a real difference in the world.”
“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”
“Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.”
“I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.”
“Some people need God and some people need science.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
“To really observe the Sabbath in our day and age! To cease for a whole day from all business, from all work, amidst the frenzied hurry-scurry of our age! To close the stock exchanges, the stores, the factories - how would it be possible? The pulse of life would stop beating and the world perish! The world perish? To the contrary, it would be saved.”
“This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that”

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