"The individual writer is a lonely figure in the wilderness of agents, editors, chain bookstores, and dwindling numbers of independents. The stronger MWA can be, the better it can serve us, and the more respect it can bring to bear in dealing with the problems most of us face every day."

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Charles Todd

#Lonely Quotes #Editors Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!”
“Love is always creative, fear always destructive.”
“Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.”
“You can't be too right too soon and win elections.”
“Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.”

Source : "The grass is greener" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2009.
“As a bounty hunter, I have to dress the part. If I came to the door and looked like Carrot Top, you'd laugh.”

Source : "Duane "Dog" Chapman: What I've Learned" by Kendall Hamilton, www.esquire.com. January 7, 2009.
“What most of us want is to be heard, to communicate.”
“I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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