"As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately."

-- Julianna Baggott

#Character Quotes #Stories Quotes #Ears Quotes

“History of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.”
“God put many animals here [on Earth] for pets, playthings and companions for us and our children, and we're still going to enjoy them [in Heaven].”
“You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.”

Source : Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.
“Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of their wills, life began to express itself in the same hard terms, and the great commerce of a New World bent everything to its indomitable will.”
“Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.”
“Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.”

Source : Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.279, Faber & Faber
“I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.”
“There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.”

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