"I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge."

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Amy Waldman

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Years Quotes

“Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.”
“After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.”
“The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.”
“I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.”

Source : John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.9, Vintage
“Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.”
“In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.”
“This is a great position to be in. I don't really believe there is any fighter, in any decade that can be in my position of luxury that I've been in for many years.”
“When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.”

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