"To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers."

-- Garry Disher

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“I feel the president is ignoring the opinion of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world. My comments were made in frustration, and one of the privileges of being an American is you are free to voice your own point of view.”

Source : "Dixie Chicks Slammed For Bush Gibe". www.cbsnews.com. March 15, 2003.
“The management of creativity is more intimate. By that I mean that it deals with an individual's personal, psychological landscape. It deals with the way you create relationships. It deals with creating an atmosphere and environment that support the creative process. As a result, it is a management skill set that is inherently psychological and that encourages desired outcomes rather than demands those outcomes.”

Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
“I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others. But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.”
“Homosexual behavior is and will always remain before the Lord an abominable sin. Calling it something else by virtue of some political definition does not change that reality.”

Source : Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org
“I want to do an intelligent talk show where you have room to breathe.”

Source : "What Might Have Been If These Media Rumors Had Come True" by Catherine Taibi, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2014.
“Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.”
“It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up of his collection of books almost invariably follows; the building up of a good library, the work of a lifetime, has been so much labour lost, so far as future generations are concerned. Talent, yes, and genius too, are displayed not only in writing books but also in buying them, and it is a pity that the ruthless hammer of the auctioneer should render so much energy and skill fruitless.”

Source : Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (1898). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson)”
“After all, the true seeing is within.”

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