"If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say."

-- Peter Meinke

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Chance Quotes

“Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?”
“If she were a President, she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln!”
“An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.”
“For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.”
“I did nothing wrongEverything I've done at this university I did the right way.”
“Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched.”
“Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.”

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