"When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen."

-- Hilary Mantel

#Writing Quotes #Wind Quotes #Paper Quotes

“Usually I don't get specific advice from certain actors or actresses I work with.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.”
“Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.”
“Tennis is the loneliest sport”
“Every five years, I decide to learn something new.”
“I try to look cute all the time.”
“As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.”

Source : Andre Norton (1981). “Gryphon in glory”, Atheneum Books
“Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.”

Source : "The Historian's Craft". Book by Marc Bloch, p. 36, 1949.

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