"I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Writing Quotes #Novelists Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.”
“Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .”

Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Time and Again”, p.158, Open Road Media
“I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.”
“There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.”

Source : William Goyen, Reginald Gibbons (2007). “Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews”, p.85, University of Texas Press
“As soon as you start focusing on the negative you're dead.”
“A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? It figures! In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live.”

Source : Bradford Angier (1998). “How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter, and Self-Preservation That Makes Starvation in the Wilderness Next to Impossible”, p.245, Simon and Schuster
“It's not enough say, "Look, bankers were immensely greedy and that they committed lots of frauds." I mean, that's not, they were set free, that sort of particular proclivity in human nature was set free to do its best and its worst. Politicians and regulators are consumers of ideas. They never have any ideas of their own, it would take too much like hard work to develop ideas, you get them off menus and you pick the ones that suit you. Financial services were set free to go beyond their rightful place, a place by which they have been restrained in the past.”
“You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

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