"I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writerâ€™s job description. If you donâ€™t care enough about it to avoid being easily disheartened that way, you really should be doing something else."

-- Lawrence Block

#Jobs Quotes #Adversity Quotes #Persistence Quotes

“Every girl needs a bestfriend to help her laugh when she thinks she`ll never smile again”
“I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“I am not a person to say the words out loud I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page: know it from there, from my silence, from somewhere other than my tongue the quiet love the silent rage.”

Source : Keri Hulme (1992). “Strands”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.”

Source : Richard Selzer (1996). “Letters to a Young Doctor”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.”

Source : Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”
“All right, stop whatcha doin, cause I'm about to ruin The image and the style that you're used to.”
“Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.”
“A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).”

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