"In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or 7 you can get a huge amount done by 11 and have the rest of the day off if you want to, though I have to check my accumulating e-mails. No one ever sends me horrible e-mails. Although some of my books are supposed to be hated, no one ever tells me."

-- Melvin Burgess

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Days Off Quotes

“Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.”

Source : David Berlinski (2009). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.65, Basic Books
“Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.”
“A.J. Bryant is a player waiting to happen. If he gets a little confidence going and a couple of catches, he can really do some big things for us.”
“the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.”
“That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.”
“We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it...”

Source : Neil Strauss (2011). “Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it”, p.398, Canongate Books
“If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.”
“Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.”

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