Paul Di Filippo Quotes
More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits.
Paul Di Filippo
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I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
Samantha Shannon
I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
Jack Osbourne
I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.
Maggie Shayne
Our new camp is on a windswept rock point. … We don't know what lake we're on, and don't care ...
Aldo Leopold
I feel like, especially being around other girls, it's really easy to start picking yourself apart and being like, 'Wow, she looks better than me.'
Lauren Jauregui
Fifth Harmony
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
Jean Paul
When you're in your young 20s, you know you can play good golf into your mid-40s. That's a lot of time to get better each and every year and achieve your goals. As long as you know you're making strides along the way, you'll get there eventually.
David Hearn
Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.
John Ruskin
I want to do more audio originals because I think that it is a fascinating medium. If you think about it, this is original storytelling.
David Hewson
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor
Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.
Oswald Chambers
More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits.
Paul Di Filippo
