"Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk."

-- John Grisham

#Writing Quotes #Hours Quotes #Made Quotes

“I love life, I love people and I love sharing, so I would say that I'm romantic.”
“Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration...”
“I've always seen the songs as having a consciousness. Since I was two-and-a-half they would come to me from nowhere. I never thought that I was conjuring them by myself, and I was always grateful they would come and visit... They've always been very much alive. They don't have a physical body like we do but there seems to be an awareness.”
“A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.”

Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”
“My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...”
“It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The slave trade, domestic and foreign: why it exists, and how it may be extinguished”, p.364
“I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.”
“Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears - Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's. Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.”

Source : "The Middle Ages of reason" by Terry Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.

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