"In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal."

-- Leon Uris

#Self Quotes #Order Quotes #Two Quotes

“All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world which can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one clue to the answering of that question, only one real hermeneutic of the gospel: a congregation which believes it.”
“A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?”
“No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.”
“Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.”

Source : Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.133, Dial Press
“Life is a journey that have a lot different path, but any path u choose use it as your destiny.”
“There are conservative values where certain lifestyles are imposed and everybody should have 2.4 children and a dog and a cat and a house and you should feel like God and you should believe in God and you should be a capitalist. I don't buy any of that.”
“There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone care for a person that has manifested from my dreams, to make them hate me for putting them in danger, and for them to ask to be taken on another journey with me when it is all said and done is why I write.”

Source : FaceBook post by Teresa Mummert from Feb 13, 2012

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