"The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences."

-- Meriwether Lewis

#Dog Quotes #Torture Quotes #Howl Quotes

“If we don't tell people about our needs, it is much less likely they will be met.”
“How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?”
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
“Next thing you know, we're like the computer people for the movie industry in the Twin Cities”
“The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.”
“One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.”
“In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just â€œwriteâ€ with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists?”

Source : Noah Lukeman (2010). “The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile”, p.72, Oxford University Press, USA
“The creative process is probably closest to problem solving, but it differs from it in a number of ways. In problem solving the immediate goal is a specific one ... in the creative process there is no such clear goal.”

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