"Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom."

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Source : Jessica Zafra (1998). “Twisted”, Anvil Books

Jessica Zafra

#Boredom Quotes #Healthy Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.”
“The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.”

Source : James K. Baxter, John Edward Weir (1979). “Collected poems”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better or worse people, but by the end of the story they are not the same personalities they were in the beginning. Their change, in its various stages, is called the story's emotional arc.”

Source : Nancy Kress (2005). “Write Great Fiction - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint”, p.18, Writer's Digest Books
“Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.”
“Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.”

Source : Douglas Wilson (2012). “Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families”, p.41, Harper Collins
“The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.”

Source : 1928 Review of D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in The New Age, 27 Sep. This may very well have been the first published review of Lawrence's novel.
“A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.”
“Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.”

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