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- Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as…
- I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by…
- I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every…
- My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father…
- You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You…
- What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't know,…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold