"You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's like learning an instrument, you've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with. And read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on."

-- J. K. Rowling

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“He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. [Lat., Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad agnatos et gentiles deducendus.]”

Source : "De Re Rustica". Book by Marcus Terentius Varro, I, 2,
“The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.”
“I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“After weeks on the road, listening to a language you donâ€™t understand, using a currency whose value you donâ€™t comprehend, walking down streets youâ€™ve never walked down before, you discover that your old â€œI,â€ along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.”
“Stop trying to be what society's shoving down your throat.”
“Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.”
“I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.”
“When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way.”

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