"You usually dont know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events."

-- Leon Uris

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Events Quotes

“Weâ€™d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.”
“One open, one closed. It was no wonder that the first image that came to mind when I thought of either of my sisters was a door. With Kirsten, it was the front one to our house, through which she was always coming in or out, usually in mid-sentence, a gaggle of friends trailing behind her. Whitneyâ€™s was the one to her bedroom, which she preferred to keep shut between her and the rest of us, always.”
“Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If it was not like that, there would be no hospital nurses, for compared dispassionately with other professions, the hours are long, the work hard, and the pay inadequate to the amount of concentrated energy required. A nurse, however, does not view her profession dispassionately. It is too much a part of her.”
“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”

Source : Lisa Kleypas (2008). “A Wallflower Christmas: A Novel”, p.91, Macmillan
“I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.”

Source : Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.231, Vintage
“We are lovers, fear and I. She calls to me, and I let her in.”
“I was a drama major through college.”

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