"I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do."

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Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.838, Delphi Classics

Margaret Oliphant

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“I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.”
“You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.”
“I do think it's getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable. The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world's putting out at you.”

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“Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to write a whole story, a whole book. A writer has to be able to look at that story and see whether or not a character works, whether or not a character needs further definition.”
“You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.”
“It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.”

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“Much of traditional magic takes place by the light of the Moon. In the night world we are closer to the unconscious, the hidden, that which has yet to be made manifest, that which is suppressed and as yet realized. Past, present, and future are simultaneously one in the realm of the unconscious. Night is when this world and the other world can meet.”
“I believe in a zone of privacy.”

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