"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."

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Jose Saramago

#Writing Quotes #Novelists Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kailash Satyarthi from Jul 09, 2015
“The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.”
“Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.”

Source : "It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over: Making A Case For Condoms" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2012.
“All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.”
“An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.”
“Then on! then on! where duty leads,My course be onward still.”

Source : George Crabbe, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1839). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”
“It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.”
“Composition is what's similar between being photographer and director. As a photographer, you're sort of doing everything - you're directing the lights and you're framing and you're moving around. The hardest thing to learn as a director is how cameras have to move. You have to have patience, you have to learn how to look through the lens and then you have to learn to combine all of the compartments into one great image.”

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