"You need a lot of energy to get a novel finished. You need an ability to ignore everyone around you. It's why I don't read my reviews any more. I know a lot of people say that, but I really don't read them."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#People Quotes #Energy Quotes #Ability Quotes

“I'm the hardest person to buy a gift for.”

Source : "Stacy Keibler’s Sexy And Speedy Beauty Look". Interview with Dana Oliver, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2011.
“Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.”

Source : Tracy Kidder, Richard Todd (2013). “Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction”, p.19, Random House
“And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.”
“In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like those of sane men-e.g. that they have their foundations in truth-and are not like the dreams of the sick, formed by strange combinations of phantasms, contrary to nature and therefore incredible.”
“within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.”

Source : M. M. Kaye (2015). “The Sun in the Morning”, p.19, St. Martin's Griffin
“There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.”
“If your heart has grown distant from Allah, the real question is who moved?”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 30, 2015
“Beautiful things make people happy.”

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