"I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins."

-- Jill McCorkle

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Together Quotes

“Faith is the willingness to look foolish.”
“About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting Heureka!, plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on. ... One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings.”

Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.
“Matching the right kidney to the right patient is one example of an algorithmic artificial intelligence.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Itâ€™s difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognize you from your work, or whether itâ€™s just because youâ€™re six foot three and have the eyebrows of Satan.”
“And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so that these clever, complex statements form slowly and then bloom in my mind. Beethoven does the same thing with his cadence and phrasing and structure. It's a fact: Jane Austen is musical. And so's Yeats. And Wordsworth. All the great writers are musical.”

Source : Andrew Clements (2008). “Things Hoped For”, p.77, Penguin
“One of the things I firmly believe about seemingly risky decisions is that you can't fully imagine how things can be better while you're in the thing you don't quite like.”
“I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.”
“I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.”

Source : "Seau to meet with Patriots, may end retirement" by The Associated Press, www.espn.com. August 18, 2006.

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