"I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Character Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If you are afraid to fail, you will never succeed.”
“Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.”

Source : "Five reasons Greg Hunt may not be the best minister in the world" by Michael Slezak, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2016.
“They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.”
“Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.”
“The Age of Aquarius is the age of excellence in which personal purity shall absolutely matter.”
“The universe is wider than our views of it.”
“During waves of terror attacks, Israel's national police chief will call on all concealed-handgun permit holders to make sure they carry firearms at all times, and Israelis have many examples where concealed permit holders have saved lives.”

Source : "John Lott: Should a Web Site Post Best Ideas for Successful Terrorist Plots?". www.foxnews.com. August 14, 2007.
“I think criticism of good work should stop somewhere.”

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