"Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life."

-- Julianna Baggott

#Passion Quotes #Writing Quotes #Agonizing Quotes

“When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.”
“There is one sure way to identify your greatest potential for strength: Step back and watch yourself for a while. Try an activity and see how quickly you pick it up, how quickly you skip steps in the learning and add twists and kinks you haven't been taught yet. See whether you become absorbed in the activity to such an extent that you lose track of time. If none of these has happened after a couple of months, try another activity and watch-and another. Over time your dominant talents will reveal themselves, and you can start to refine them into a powerful strength.”

Source : Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
“The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.”
“I build the individual modules to meet a demand. If I need the music to change direction, I want to have the tools to be able to do that.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.”
“All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.”
“You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your loverâ€™s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it.”
“Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.”

Source : Jodi Lynn Anderson (2006). “Peaches”, HarperCollins Children's Books

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