"If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell."

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Octavia Butler

#Writing Quotes #Persistence Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.”
“I look a lot like my father and his mother.”
“I promise to love you forever in this life and wherever we go in the afterlife, because I know I can't go on in any life unless you're in it too.”
“I smoke a brown pipe like the breast of a little negress.”
“A born terror, a rebel without a pause... Ain't never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?”
“Firms that fully embrace the needs and interests of the whole person will win today's competition for the best talent.”
“We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.”

Source : Gertrude Atherton (1908). “The Californians”, p.127, Library of Alexandria
“I could not tell Himmler everything because he was too false and two-faced.”

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 13, 1946.

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