"Finish what you start. Keep submitting until it sells."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Writing Quotes

“If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the spectrum, we may suppose three distinct sensations only to be excited by the rays of the three principal pure colours, falling on any given point of the retina, the red, the green, and the violet; while the rays occupying the intermediate spaces are capable of producing mixed sensations, the yellow those which belong to the red and green, and the blue those which belong to the green and violet.”
“Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.”

Source : Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.225, Penguin
“I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.”
“By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth.”
“Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up.”
“A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.”
“We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.”
“I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.”

Source : "Taylor Momsen: 'I'm completely neurotic and sleep four hours a day'" by Justin Harp, www.digitalspy.com. March 1, 2012.

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