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“The blackest despair that can take hold of any society is the fear that living honestly is futile.”
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“I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.”
Source : "Pharaoh's revenge" by Stephen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006. 
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“When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.”
Source : "'Matched' Author Ally Condie Explains Why Dystopian Novels Rock", www.mtv.com. May 6, 2011.
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“Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know.”
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“But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of America, you know, the House, one of the things we did, we passed a budget last year. But that is still sitting over there at the Senate. And so we have got to get this country back on track.”
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“The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.”
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“I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.”
Source : Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
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“I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.”
