"Keep reading and writing, learn how to revise, and push through rejections. My second book, Monsoon Summer, was rejected over 20 times and finally came out 11 years after my first book! I'm glad I didn't give up. Neither should you."

-- Mitali Perkins

#Summer Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Book Quotes

“One kiss, I was totally hooked.”
“The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.”

Source : Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.156, Penguin
“The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum”
“The separate atoms of a molecule are not connected all with all, or all with one, but, on the contrary, each one is connected only with one or with a few neighbouring atoms, just as in a chain link is connected with link.”
“The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions of men and women with some sort of Humanist philosophy who have consciously given up their lives for a social ideal.”
“On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.”
“If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past”
“As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.”

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