"I think that you've got to be prepared to write a load of nonsense to start with and then you can tart it up. The business of getting going, getting started, is enormously important, and this can be physical. Solvitur Ambulando as the Romans used to say, which means the solution comes through walking."

-- Colin Dexter

#Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“This extraordinary group has absolutely captivated my imagination, knocked my socks off - what more can I say?”
“I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.”

Source : "Bo Jackson Arrives, Sees a More Positive Attitude". Interview with Mark Heisler, articles.latimes.com. October 13, 1989.
“It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.”
“The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.”
“We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.”
“The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.”
“We can't control the world, but we can control our reactions to it.”
“Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.”

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