"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."

Time, Beginning, Effort, Want

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"I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in."

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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Best Use, Mind

"Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Time, Memory, Experience, Perception

"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

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"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."

Josh Billings, American Comedian

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"Time and the hour run through the roughest day."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"Forget your past, live for the present day."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Time, Now, Right

"Time is the longest distance between two places."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

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"I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard."

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"People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense."

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"Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time."

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"I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass."

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"I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read."

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"What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives."

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"If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you."

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"The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia."

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"I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam."

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"I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way."

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