"To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time."

-- Simon Winchester

#Old Habits Quotes #Honest Quotes #Deadline Quotes

“My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.”
“If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.”

Source : Susan Howe (1993). “The Birth-mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History”, p.47, Wesleyan University Press
“Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.”
“Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.”
“Yeah we shine, gold cluster. As for your career? Dead, Ghost Busters.”
“$5,000 means nothing to me! I did about $5,000 worth of damage to that nose of his!!”
“Through that windshield I saw a city that didn’t know it was hungry and a reflection of a guy who was FREE.”
“School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.”

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