"But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven."

-- Lauren Willig

#Morning Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.”
“If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.”
“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”
“It's hard for us sophisticates to believe, but the people my parents worked for were good people. They were socialists of the heart. They were Scottish upper class. I don't think they had political theories in the way my lefty friends in New York do but they did all the things that socialists do. My mother was the Jewish cook from Vienna and they would say, "Come and have dinner with us." I spent weekends with them. Who does that? This is Utopia.”
“I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!”
“Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.”
“The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.”

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