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All Quotes Collection
"Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too."
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"All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect."
60
"Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life."
41
"You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others."
Will,
40
"I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened."
46
"People who think about art as an investment are pathetic."
45
"I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty."
52
"I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse."
56
"I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?"
51
"In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated."
44
"It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself."
47
"The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges."
63
"Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new."
58
"It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading."
47
"My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg."
44
"I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence."
52
"My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country."
43
"Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life."
44
"Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round."
49
"Where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees."
18
"A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!"
32
"I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done."
37
"People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence."
47
"Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time."
53
"Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite."
61
"What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit."
52
"SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible."
47
"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."
45
"As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them."
43
"At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails."
58
"At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet."
40
"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."
58
"Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels."
40
"I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com."
50
"I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more."
42
"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."
51
"One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need."
45
"I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along."
50
"It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it."
46
"I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that."
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