"When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you."

-- J. Michael Straczynski

#Book Quotes #Hunting Quotes #People Quotes

“When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.”

Source : Cecil Frances Alexander (1871). “Hymns for Little Children”, p.43
“I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the Time Warp Trio novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.”
“The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.”
“I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen.”
“Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends”
“But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.”
“Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.”

Source : Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.97, Library of Alexandria
“Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be â€œjust humansâ€ within the framework of white supremacy has usually meant that subordinate groups must surrender their identities, beliefs, values, and assimilate by adopting the values and beliefs of privileged-class whites, rather than promoting racial harmony this thinking has created a fierce cultural protectionism.”

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