"A writer is always working."

-- William Zinsser

#Writing Quotes

“Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.”
“You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.”
“Bush to USSS: 'We need to get back to Wash. We don't need some tin horn terrorist to scare us off.'”
“Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.”
“The average person is unaware that he or she is living out a negative destiny according to his or her past (childhood) programming, preserving his or her familiar identity, and, in the process, pushing love away. On an unconscious level, many people sense that if they did not push love away, the whole world, as they have experienced it, would be shattered and they would not know who they were.”
“Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.”
“These things shall be! A loftier race Than e'er the world hath known shall rise, With flame of freedom in their souls, And light of knowledge in their eyes.”

Source : Hymn
“Here in America, people are very professional.”

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