"Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied."

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Source : Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

Ngaio Marsh

#Writing Quotes #Successful Quotes #Stylist Quotes

“Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.”
“Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.”
“Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.”
“Once when I told sex workers about my own sex work, it ended up building inappropriate trust with some people. But there have been events now - like covering the protests against Backpage at the Village Voice - where I've talked to sex workers who don't necessarily know that I've done sex work.”
“Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.”
“Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that Godâ€™s way, and not our own, is what counts.”
“the more thoughtful you are of others, the more thoughtful they will be of you. The more you respect them, the more you will win their respect.”

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