"Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride."

-- Gordon B. Hinckley

#Beautiful Quotes #Journey Quotes #Dust Quotes

“She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.”

Source : Tad Williams (2017). “River of Blue Fire: Otherland”, p.580, Hachette UK
“I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.”

Source : Interview with Paul Newman, Abraxas Unbound #7,
“Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.”
“During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.”
“I'll step in an airport just now, and people will recognize me. I'm in Harlem on 144th and whatever, and people are coming up to me like, "What's up, Chamillionaire?" And seeing it grow is, nothing turning into something, that feeling is a really good feeling.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.”
“The secret of war lies in the communications.”
“The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.”

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