"Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed."

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Source : Baruch College Class Interview, www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

Anita Desai

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“My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.”
“I would come, many years later, to understand why To Kill A Mockingbird is considered an important novel, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.”
“When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'”
“You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else”

Source : Joe Abercrombie (2009). “The Blade Itself: The First Law: Book One”, p.71, Hachette UK
“Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.”
“If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now.”
“Unbinding the Heart really means to bring awareness to those areas we have restricted in our hearts and start to let go, open up, and practice staying open no matter what happens or doesn't happen.”
“Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.”

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