"You learn so much with each book, but it's what you teach yourself by writing your own books and by reading good books written by other people - that's the key. You don't want to worry too much about other people's responses to your work, not during the writing and not after. You just need to read and write, and keep going."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#Reading Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.”
“~As a mom, you have to look at how much time you're spending with your kids. There is nothing you will regret more in your life - nothing - than not being present for your children.~”
“There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.”
“I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.”
“Death is the mother of beauty.”
“I don't care what my friends think." "You care what they'l do when they remember that you're the one with personality.”
“Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay a hand on you.”
“The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.”

Source : James F. Byrnes (1947). “Spealing Frankly”

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