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“Speak the language of the person you want to become.”
Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
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“The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.”
Source : Attributed without citation in Blythe Camenson "How to Sell, Then Write Your Nonfiction Book", p. 188, 2002.
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“A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it.”
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“All things are photographable.”
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“My tablecloth was missing in action and long, jagged scratches covered the table's surface.The scratches looked suspiciously like letters. I climbed on a chair and looked at it from above. MINE. Oh, that's great. Fantastic. So mature. Perhaps he would pull my pigtails next or stick a tack on my seat.”
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“The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop”
Source : Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.39, Del Rey
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“You can't go to sleep without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in your sleep...”
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“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”
Source : "Daughters of the Promised Land, Women in American History" by Page Smith, (p. 273), 1970.
