"At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet."

-- Rose Tremain

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Choose a book, ... Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.”

Source : Peter V. Brett (2015). “The Demon Cycle 3-Book Bundle: The Warded Man, The Desert Spear, The Daylight War”, p.126, Del Rey
“Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian." Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens.”
“When you are in your heart, nothing needs to be done to bring change... It will happen automatically and with grace.”

Source : Drunvalo Melchizedek (2010). “Serpent of Light: The Movement of the Earth's Kundalini and the Rise of the Female Light, 1949 to 2013”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com
“There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.”
“As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.”

Source : William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.207, Library of Alexandria
“I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris
“I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a TRM, I tell him. You make a mess. It's okay. You just have to try harder next time. I am trying hard, Dad says. I know. You get a sticker. Thank you. Okay. You get another sticker for being polite.”

Source : Kathryn Erskine (2010). “Mockingbird”, p.84, Penguin
“I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.”

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