"Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision."

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Source : Margaret Fairless Barber (1950). “The roadmender: and other writings”

Margaret Barber

#Wall Quotes #Vision Quotes #Four Quotes

“That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.”

Source : Jincy Willett (2009). “The Writing Class”, p.76, Macmillan
“Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.”
“One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.”
“I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.”
“If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.”
“Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.”

Source : Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.247, WaterBrook
“Sometimes you have to win ugly.”
“Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.”

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