"On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken."

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Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (2008). “So I have thought of you: the letters of Penelope Fitzgerald”, Fourth Estate (GB)

Penelope Fitzgerald

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Biographies Quotes

“Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.24, Penguin
“You aren't accountable to anyone, teachers or family but to yourself. Make sure your surrounding s are clean in all aspects”
“The boys feet have been up in the clouds since the win”
“The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.”

Source : Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”
“When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.”
“Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.”
“When I say 'The Hunger For More', it could be referring to more success. It could be more money, or respect, more power, more understanding. All of those things lead up to that hunger for more, because my more isn't everybody else's more. I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. God forbid anything happen to me, my family is straight. So anything that happens after this is just me progressing as a person.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.”

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