"Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued."

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Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

Joseph Wambaugh

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Nonfiction Quotes

“It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was.”
“Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.”

Source : Jules Michelet (1847). “History of France: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time”, p.169
“Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.”

Source : Samuel Laman Blanchard, “Hidden Joys”
“My mother drove back to the intersection. "Who are you dating?" "Don't ask," I said. I wasn't dating anyone. I was fornicating with Batman.”
“When we have public success we also have private struggles.”
“We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge our desires.”
“In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.”
“Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.”

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