"I always love writing about children."

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Source : "Paperback Q&A: Joanna Trollope on Daughters-in-Law". www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2012.

Joanna Trollope

#Children Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I had been at Comic-Con, and I have the same manager as Bob Morley, so we ended up at a Warner Bros. party. I met Jason Rothenberg for the first time, and he's a fan of Black Sails and Shameless and some of my work, and was like, "Hey, we've been having trouble casting this part. I think you'd be perfect for it, if you'd be willing to come up and have some fun for some episodes."”
“The work of the Spirit is the bringing to be of the vision of God....the capacitating of persons to 'see visions' and 'dream dreams'. .... The birth of the Church is the beginning of the End. ..... The Kingdom of God as the miracle of ocular newness when 'the blind see' makes its impact on history in the creation of a visionary community . [[The tongues were]] the language of the world to come... Therefore in this birth of the Church, the risen and ascended Lord takes to himself a Body on earth with eyes opened by the Spirit to see the future.”
“Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.”
“If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.”
“Time, Kate was learning, was like a river. You might put up obstacles, even divert it briefly, but the river had a will of it's own. It wanted to flow a certain way. You had to force it to change. You had to be willing to sacrifice.”

Source : John Stephens (2011). “The Emerald Atlas”, p.332, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.”
“I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.”
“All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.”

Source : Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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