"London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books."

-- Peter Ackroyd

#Book Quotes #Character Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldnâ€™t obsessively reread what youâ€™d written after youâ€™d sent it. You couldnâ€™t attempt to un-send it. Once youâ€™d sent it it was gone. It was an object that no longer belonged to you but belonged to your recipient to do with what he would. You tended to remember the feeling of what youâ€™d said more than the words. You gave to object away and left yourself with the memory. That was what it was to give.”
“In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.”
“Today, the U.S. fleet has shrunk to just four main carriers, which control 80 percent-plus of the U.S. market. No wonder passengers are at the mercy of the major airlines: flights jam-packed, routes slashed, service to smaller airports dumped.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I have more confidence than I ever have before.”
“The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in”
“Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.”
“I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.”
“I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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