"One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write."

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Source : Matthew Reilly (2015). “The Great Zoo of China”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

Matthew Reilly

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Careers Quotes

“Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them.”
“Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.”
“When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.”
“He's not pointing to anybody, he's showing off how high he can count!”
“Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.”
“Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.”
“Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which makes itself heard only to give us orders and establish prohibitions, we cannot recognize our own voices; the very tone in which it speaks to us warns us that it expresses something within us that is not of ourselves.”
“I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.”

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