"In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill."

-- Hilary Mantel

#Pain Quotes #Writing Quotes #Careers Quotes

“The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever.”
“If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.”
“You sit and you read that, and you have to imagine turning it into a film that people are going to sit and watch. And you have an awful lot of input from a lot of other people. That's the way I work.”

Source : Source: www.aintitcool.com
“You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.”
“Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.”

Source : Ethel Alec-Tweedie, Mrs Alec-Tweedie (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”
“I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.”
“When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?”
“However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.”

Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1994.

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