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“to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.”
Source : Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”
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“You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.”
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.”
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“After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.”
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“Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.”
Source : Marion Zimmer Bradley (2003). “The Fall of Atlantis”, p.110, Baen Publishing Enterprises
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“I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.”
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“America's a great country - you better believe it's a great country, one of the greatest on this planet - but even the greatest needs to pay attention. I wish the powerful sources that run this country could understand that.”
Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
