"I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to."

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Afternoon Quotes

“Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.”
“Why do kids always say peace out, I though peace was in.”
“A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human.”
“Love, you are eternal like springtime.”
“I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.”
“To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.”
“Love what you do. Enjoy listening to people. It can be hard work, but the potential for helping people is tremendous.”
“He only is great at heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career. And he is greatest who does the most of all these things and does them best.”

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