"I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function."

-- Greg Iles

#Writing Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Easier Quotes

“If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.”
“Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you donâ€™t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesnâ€™t look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.”
“We have determined enemies who will use any means available to take the lives of as many Americans as possible. They cheered when the Twin Towers fell. They dream of even larger calamities. They must be stopped. And that requires an intelligence system that finds them, before they harm us.”
“When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business.”
“David Corbett has combined his unique talents as a gifted writer and an extraordinary teacher to create a superb resource on character development. Deftly crafted and impeccably researched, The Art of Character is a thoughtful and insightful book that is immensely readable and practical.”
“I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.”
“I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!”
“Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.”

Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.13, Granta Books

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