"Of writing many books there is no end."

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to write a song, making tiny tweaks, reading it out loud, shifting things to make it sound a certain way... Sometimes it feels like digging out of a hole, but sometimes it feels like flying. When it's working and the rhythm's there, it does feel like magic to me.”
“This life is the greatest lie ever told and the hereafter is the greatest truth ever unknown”
“Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.”

Source : "Scourge and poet" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2003.
“All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.”
“Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.”
“We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.”
“Each album comes from definitely a different period in the evolution of each of us individually as creators and the role that we take in life. The external stimuli changed... so the songs are full of lots of different meanings.”
“They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men.”

Source : Karen Maitland (2011). “The Gallows Curse”, p.126, Penguin UK

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