"I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!"

-- Robert B. Parker

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“Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It was said by some of the police on the scene that God was crying for the girl in the garden. To others, it was only rain. (final lines)”

Source : "The night gardener". Book by George Pelecanos, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2006.
“The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.”
“The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.”

Source : "The Third Anniversary Discourse, on the Hindus" (1786)
“Your attitudes contain your future.”
“I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.”
“rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.”

Source : Patricia Cornwell (2009). “Four Scarpetta Novels”, p.415, Penguin
“I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's a good market for female comedians, and I want to explore that right now. I really do want to do dramas and meatier roles, especially film.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice! O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths! O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb! A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.”

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