"Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul."

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Source : Vogue Interview, April 1985.

Edna O'Brien

#Soul Quotes #Mind Quotes #Bedtime Quotes

“I know how demanding the process of creation is.”

Source : "Such sweet sorrow - lots of tension, too". www.theglobeandmail.com. June 1, 2012.
“I testify that the tender mercies of the Lord are real and that they do not occur randomly or merely by coincidence. Often, the Lord's timing of His tender mercies helps us to both discern and acknowledge them.”
“If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jack Black from Aug 24, 2013
“I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.”
“He who hugs too much, hugs badly!”
“The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.”
“Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.”

Source : "Boundaries and Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
“On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.”

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