"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Writing Quotes #Literature Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'”
“If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never be put in a house or over a house, any way. Good housekeeping lies at he root of all the real ease and satisfaction in existence.”
“It's amazing the life that I?m living today, and I count my blessings every day for the gifts that God has given me.”
“Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.”

Source : M.r. James (2016). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.52, M.r. James
“I actually love pressure. I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.”

Source : Gavin Pretor-Pinney (2007). “The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds”, p.33, Penguin
“It is curious, isn't it, that things you know well never look dirty and dilapidated-other people's old furniture looks shabby and moth-eaten. â€œI would never have that horrible old couch in my room,â€ you say. But your own old couch is every bit as bad and you are not disgusted with its appearance; it is your friend, you see, and you remember it when it was new and smart. Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.”
“It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writerâ€”I am merely a word criminal.”

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