"When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours."

-- Sidney Sheldon

#Writing Quotes #Hundred Quotes #Novel Quotes

“I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.”
“A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane As night descends upon the fabled street: A lonely hansom splashes through the rain, And ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet. Here though the world explode, these two survive, And it is always eighteen ninety-five.”

Source : Vincent Starrett, Peter Ruber (1995). “More Books Alive: New Treasures from a Master Literary Detective”, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
“If you miss the moment, you miss your life.”
“You never have to be scared of the trials but of standing alone in the trials without shelter (Allah's help).”
“Time-Use it or lose it. Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we're trying to decide what to do with it. The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.”
“Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?”
“For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public. Why? Because authority is afraid that people may think of God knows what kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means”
“I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

Source : "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

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