"I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa."

-- John Dalton

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Iowa Quotes

“To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.”
“It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.”
“Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.”
“Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?”
“The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.”

Source : John F. MacArthur (2006). “Hard to Believe: The High Cost and Infinite Value of Following Jesus”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Men, today we die a little.”
“It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.”
“A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'”

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