"One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book."

-- Justin Cronin

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Long Quotes

“I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.”
“It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.”

Source : Lawana Blackwell (2007). “The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter (The Gresham Chronicles Book #2)”, p.262, Baker Books
“We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.”
“They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is imparted by a seafaring life as readily and surely as a rolling gait and a weather-beaten countenance. A fine imagination is one of the gifts of the ocean-witness the surprising and unlimited power of expression and epithet possessed by the sailor. And a fine imagination will frequently manifest itself in other ways besides swear words.”
“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?”
“Nashville, man. That's the place to be.”
“I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.”
“I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life... I write out of hurt and how to make hurt okay; how to make myself strong and come home, and it may be the only real home I'll ever have.”

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