"I write a thousand words a day."

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Lisa See

#Writing Quotes #Thousand Quotes

“I love scenes that are just emotional give and take. By the same token, action sequences are great to do. They have their own unique demands and requirements. So I take it as it comes, and hopefully you can get a good balance of all of that stuff.”

Source : "Daddy’s Home! Stephen Lang On Playing Mary Shannon’s Long Gone Father On In Plain Sight!". Interview with Sheldon Wiebe, eclipsemagazine.com. April 19, 2012.
“There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff.”
“Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.”
“I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just because I got a couple of magazine jobs when I was really poor and needed the money and it turned out that non-fiction was much more interesting than I thought it was.”
“There's a lot of hidden gems in the UK. You sometimes have to dig deep to find them, but there's still a lot of great guitar bands out there. So, in a way it makes you appreciate it more, but then a lot of bands do go missing also.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“When they remain silent, they cry out.”
“You are a person of destiny. You are not here by accident. There is no obstacle too big, no dream you can't accomplish.”
“I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.”

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