"Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them."

-- Richard Schmid

#Ideas Quotes #Magic Quotes #Trying Quotes

“If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.”
“When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on the next three feet. And then the next three feet; and then the next three feet. Pretty soon, I'm at the top.”
“This Epistle, is therefore a legacy to the Christians of all ages.”
“Crawling still gets you there.”
“Collaboration gets me excited.”
“Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passÃ© by the time you have completed your manuscript.”

Source : Andrew McAleer (2008). “101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists: Insider Secrets from Top Writers”, p.66, Adams Media
“Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.”
“While I am happy to make the occasional foray into educational philosophy - writing, for example, of the difficulty in the contemporary context for a teacher to be 'truthful' - it is more the personal conduct of a life than social institutions that I am concerned to examine.”

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