"All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself."

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Penelope Lively

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Names Quotes

“The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts...Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach.”

Source : "The Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 19: 'The Secular Scripture' and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991". Book by Northrop Frye, November 1, 2005.
“All I want to say is that life is very fragile. We should live every moment and cherish what we have been given.”
“Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.”

Source : Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
“When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.”

Source : Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
“What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong,”
“It's up to us to choose whether we win or lose...and I choose to win.”

Source : Song: No More Drama
“St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.”

Source : "Patrick,we Hardly Knew Ye". articles.chicagotribune.com. March 14, 1997.
“Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.”

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