"I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along."

-- Piers Anthony

#Light Quotes #Annoyed Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.”

Source : Edwin Louis Cole (1998). “Absolute Answers to Prodigal Problems”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated
“If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.”
“If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.”
“Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.”
“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.”
“Time, Kate was learning, was like a river. You might put up obstacles, even divert it briefly, but the river had a will of it's own. It wanted to flow a certain way. You had to force it to change. You had to be willing to sacrifice.”

Source : John Stephens (2011). “The Emerald Atlas”, p.332, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.”
“When you don't have to depend upon your creative work for money, you'll never really have to compromise... Knowing that is hugely liberating as well as artistically clarifying... Being practical about where your money comes from means you can be romantic about your writing... I believe that a healthy society is one that supports its artists, but I also know that that privilege, of being only an artist, is afforded to just a small number. Most of us have to find something else - or live a highly disciplined life, which I'm not willing to do.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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