"Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work."

-- Sinclair Lewis

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“You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of a completed design, that somebody is in charge, and that while life is pointless, the book isn't pointless. The author knows where he is going. That's form.”
“Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.”
“[Judaism is] ever... mighty in wickedness... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity.”
“Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.”
“Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.”

Source : Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business
“conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.”
“I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”
“There is someone for everyone, i'nt there. That's always my thing. And it's reassuring I think.”

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