"I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished."

-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well who might otherwise have died of diseases like leukemia, kidney failure, and herpes virus encephalitis cannot be described in words.”
“All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel.”

Source : William Rathbone Greg (1874). “The Creed of Christendom: Its Foundations Contrasted with Its Superstructure”, p.121
“I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union. There is always some final event, some failure of an organ, some last attack of pneumonia, that finishes off a life. No one dies of old age.”
“I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.”
“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
“I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.”
“If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out!”
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”

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