"We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone elseâ€™s skin, so to speak. Thatâ€™s why we read novels, and also why we write themâ€“to experience more life."

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Source : "MysteryPeople Q&A with Steven Saylor". Interview with Scott Butki, mysterypeople.wordpress.com. March 31, 2014.

Steven Saylor

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Skins Quotes

“I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.”
“The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.”
“Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while youâ€™re lagging, I may remember him!”
“The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)”

Source : Kenneth C. Davis (1990). “Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History But Never Learned”, Crown Pub
“Learn how to cook a (effing) omelet. I mean, what nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? You look good doing it, and it's a nice thing to do for somebody you just had sex with.”
“It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.”
“In the end, whether I write the script or, in this case, somebody else did, there's a point where you let it go when you're making a movie. You just have to. The thing that you shoot is not what you imagined in your head - it never is exactly that. And it shouldn't be.”

Source : Source: www.buzzfeed.com
“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country ... not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change,â€ she said. â€œI have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment.”

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