"I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it."

-- Ruth Rendell

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Letters Quotes

“I always go extreme ways.”
“Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.”
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister”
“I can be someone's and still be my own.”
“If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.”

Source : Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.182
“You are your child's keeper until she's mature enough to keep herself.”
“Iâ€™m home. Ya happy now?â€™ Beckâ€™s gravelly voice demanded. â€˜Yes, I am.â€™ â€˜Yerâ€™ treatinâ€™ me like iâ€™m some idiot kid,â€™ he complained. â€˜Gee, I wonder where I learned that?â€™ He hung up on her.”

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