"And it is strange that absence can feel like presence."

-- Ally Condie

#Strange Quotes #Absence Quotes #Feels Quotes

“You're The Grinch, Cole! That's why you don't like it.”
“The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story or another, or at least sketch out my characters, and research various issues related to my characters' dilemmas.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.”
“Every fight can be the last one, that's why for every fight I prepare myself like it's the last fight of my career.”
“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed;”
“I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.”
“Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.”
“There are a lot of smart people being really thoughtful and writing really interesting things, but that isn't what I want to do. It's never felt like what I've been called to do. And I have to risk sounding really arrogant when I say that because I've gone to Ivy League schools and been privileged in all these ways in the world of ideas, but I'm not as smart as you think. I'm not really depending on what I learned in college to write my books. Those were just parts of my life experience.”

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