"You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm."

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Barbara Kingsolver

#Book Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.”

Source : Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.67, Penguin
“Learning to create is essential, necessary, vital & fundamental. It is the centrepiece in which you create the life that you really want”
“I've written one book-length piece of journalism. The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? That book had an impact. Eight years after it was published it's still having an impact in Guatemala. I remember when I wrote it, a surprising number of people said things to me like, "That is such an amazing story; why didn't you turn it into a novel?"”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Be patient. Be confident in yourself. Anything can happen if you really work at it. Never give up. Itâ€˜s corny, but never give up.”
“I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.”
“As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.”
“A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.”
“There's nothing worse than the sequel that's a letdown from the first movie.”

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