"Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ... Put a question mark by everything you find suspect. Underline anything you really appreciate. Feel free to write 'splendid,' but also, 'I don't believe a word of it.' And even 'bullshit.'"

-- Tim Parks

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Hands Quotes

“There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.”
“Rache,â€ he said, trying to get into my line of sight. â€œWhat more do you need? God to send a telegram?" (Jenks)”
“Problems always start long before you really, really see them.”

Source : Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.63, Broadway Books
“Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.”
“You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me.”
“What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.”
“That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.”
“At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid my head against his chest, and felt his breath stir my hair. I had no words, but I had made my choice. "'Whither thou goest,'" I said. "'I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried.' Be it Scottish hill or southern forest. You do what you have to; I'll be there.”

Source : Diana Gabaldon (1997). “Drums of Autumn”

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