"Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft."

-- Maggie Stiefvater

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“All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.”
“I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.”
“It's a lovely tribute and fun to read.”
“The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can breathe down there after all and thereâ€™s a whole other world. Iâ€™m talking about the kind of reading when you realize that books are indeed interactive. . . . Iâ€™m talking about the kind of deep-read where it isnâ€™t just the plot or the characters that matter, but the words and the way they fit together and the meandering evanescent thoughts you think between the lines: the kind of reading where you are fleetingly aware of your own mind at work.”
“Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.”
“People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.”
“It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.”

Source : James McCosh (2009). “The Method of the Divine Government”, p.280, Applewood Books
“Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.”

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