"I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book."

-- William Styron

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Past Quotes

“I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.”
“We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.”
“Our long-term security depends on our deep faith in liberty. And we'll continue to promote freedom around the world.”
“Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.”
“Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.”
“The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.”

Source : The Christian Year "Morning" (1827)
“To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.”

Source : Melissa Gilbert (2009). “Prairie Tale: A Memoir”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 15, 2010

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