"What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'"

-- Patricia Reilly Giff

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“Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.”

Source : Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1966). “How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price”
“If you wonder how long Ill be faithful. I'll be happy to tell you again. I'm gonna love you forever & ever, forever & ever amen.”
“There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause certainty nor remove doubts that the mind may rest in truth, unless this is provided by experience.”
“I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.”
“If the workers don't keep themselves current - with some assistance and guidance from their employers - then the workers who are in the legacy roles will have to be removed. That's what's so difficult.”
“In many ways, constancy is an illusion.”

Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.14, Grove Press
“My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.”
“Where does a character come from? Because a character, at the end of the day, a character will be the combination of the writing of the character, the voicing of the character, the personality of the character, and what the character looks like.”

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