"They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter."

“There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.”

Source : Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, p.1, Harper Collins

“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”

“The one who’s really, really impressed me is Benedikt Höwedes because he’s playing out of position. He’s never played at left back before in his life but he’s having a first-rate World Cup. So, the most astonishing player for me is Höwedes.”

“American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.”

“That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.”

“To place any dependence upon militia is assuredly resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life, unaccustomed to the din of arms, totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill ... makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows.”

“If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create.”

“The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.”