"Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those."

-- Tom Rachman

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Meditation Quotes

“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.”

Source : "And Madly Teach : A Layman Looks at Public School Education". Book by Mortimer Brewster Smith, 1949.
“Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!”
“Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.”

Source : "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.
“How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.”
“I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.”
“I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.”
“Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.”
“An America we can be proud of, rather than an America to be embarrassed of. You know it's a sign, when you see American backpackers traveling abroad with Canadian flags on their packs!”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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