"The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave myself behind, along with the mechanics, and disappear into the lives of my characters."

-- Pete Hamill

#Character Quotes #Writing Quotes #Goal Quotes

“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.”
“A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.”

Source : "Advancing the Dream Through Education" by Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2013.
“Don't just be yourself. Be all of your selves.”
“But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.”
“There was a moment when I was getting death threats and bullshit via the Internet, so I was being a little more conscious and reading local message boards before going to certain towns, just to see if people were making bullshit idle threats on the Internet.”

Source : Source: music.avclub.com
“Children are paparazzi. They take your picture with their minds when you don't want them to see you at your worst. Trust me, they SEE and HEAR everything.”
“Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.”

Source : "World Famous Women: Types of Female Heroism, Beauty, and Influence from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time" by Frank Boott Goodrich, (p. 126), 1881.
“Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget.”

Source : "Oh, steer my Bark to Erin's Isle". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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