"Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write."

-- Nicholas Sparks

#Writing Quotes #Doors Quotes #Two Quotes

“I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought.”
“Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.”
“The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.”
“I've made a few hits where I'll look up at the screen and be like, 'Oh my God.' Like it wasn't even me, like I just watched another guy kill this guy, and I don't even think that was me that made that hit.”
“Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.”
“No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini, Ella Noyes (1912). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”
“My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance.”
“Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.”

You may also like:

Britt Robertson
Film actress
Cecelia Ahern
Novelist
John Green
Author
Lasse Hallstrom
Film director
Nicholas Hoult
Actor
Rachel McAdams
Actress
Ryan Gosling
Actor
Scott Eastwood
Actor
Zac Efron
Actor