"And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go."

-- Jerry Pournelle

#Editors Quotes #Lunch Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.”
“The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the author decides it shall be;...In that infinite flexibility, indeed lies the reason why the short story has never been adequately defined.”
“I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.”

Source : "How Mary Pickford Stays Young", Reader's Digest, Vol. 5, 1926.
“Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least a subscription to Reader's Digest.”

Source : Darynda Jones (2011). “For I Have Sinned (A Charley Davidson Story): A HeroesandHeartbreakers.com Original”, p.58, Macmillan
“Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”
“One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.”
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
“I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.”

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