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- I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think…
- When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page…
- With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just…
- If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are…
- Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And…
- Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has…
- A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it…
- There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.
- All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar…
- Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do,…
- Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at…
- I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.
- You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes…
- A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
- Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray