"Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research."

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Colleen McCullough

#Character Quotes #Two Quotes #Research Quotes

“God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought Iâ€™d be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?" Lace looked at me sidelong. "You were where?" I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. "I, uh, hadnâ€™t been in the city...very long. I didnâ€™t know.”
“The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.”
“A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.”
“The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.”
“Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet”
“It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.”
“Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat that person as if you were him or her. This form of brotherhood takes a lot of imagination, a great deal of sympathy, and a tremendous amount of understanding.”
“She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.190, Egmont UK

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