"Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work."

-- Wilbur Smith

#Fall Quotes #Writing Quotes #Hard Work Quotes

“A boy's best friend is his mother.”

Source : "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.
“In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.”
“I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.”

Source : BEL KAUFMAN (1964). “UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE”
“A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.”

Source : Lester B. Pearson (1974). “Mike: the memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson”, Crown
“Delacroix , Wagner , Baudelaire all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject man's nervous and psychic being.”
“Do I care? No, I don't care. People need certain things”

Source : "California senator, alleged mobsters netted in American Hustle-style FBI sting". www.foxnews.com. March 27, 2014.
“The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.”

Source : Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.27, Penguin
“For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.”

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