"It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work."

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"It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work."

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The world system is employment."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Do not be weary to make money."

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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

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"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

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"Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost."

Writing,

"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."

Travel,

"It takes a long time to publish a book."

Time,

"When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!"

Writing, Prose

"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."

Emotional, Feeling

"I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other."

People, Public, Years

"I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s."

Love, Peace, War, Music

"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."

Being,

"As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is."

Time, Work, Identity, May

"I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not."

Poetry, People, Painting