"Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too."

-- J. K. Rowling

#Reading Quotes #Phases Quotes #Helping Quotes

“I've been very fortunate - You only can do what you're offered, you know?”
“Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild and terrorizing Americans at will. The IRS hypocritically requires mistake-free returns when its own books are in shambles. It demands exorbitant sums of money without regard to the accuracy of its claims. It doesn't hesitate to use every possible maneuver to get what it wants, sometimes destroying businesses -- and lives -- in the process.”
“They first condemn that first advised the ill.”
“The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed.”
“A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.”
“When I was younger, I wanted to own a circus and create this bizarre revue that went from town to town. And, I was interested in set design and doing theater. And then, I was painting for a while. It was all circling around creating an intense experience for an audience of one, or an audience of many.”
“I was never an actor. I had done one or two random projects in my advertising career.”
“The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem.”

Source : "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1994.

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