When you're dealing with a new writer, at least a writer new to you, you're trying to establish a relationship. And starting off that relationship by making it seem like a passport application isn't the right way to do it.
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Related How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE You do that Helen", Mallory dared. "And tell him we said to f*ck off while youre at it". CHLOE NEILL A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ... BRENT M. JONES It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO... OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person yo... ELLEN WRIGHT By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER When you see a new day, you must see a new reason to think anew. You must see a new reason to start ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A new day simply means all our errors of the previous day has been forgiven us,we can now re-begin a... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A new year is another vantage opportunity to re-strategize the venture called life. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't te... JOHN STEINBECK There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark. ZE FRANK At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ide... IAN RANKIN In any relationship, when you go through any big change, you struggle to find your new constellation... ALICIA VIKANDER A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV ... JOHN GREEN In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus MADELEINE L’ENGLE Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others. APURVA GAGLANI You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA Each new tool we create ends an old relationship with the world and starts a new one. And we're ... ELLEN ULLMAN There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are c... RUTH OZEKI a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, ... ANNE LAMOTT If the placebo effect was a week or two, I would understand that and say, 'Yes, youre right.' You kn... BOB GREEN There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i... LEWIS N. ROE This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w... ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s... ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ... ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ... ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t... ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o... ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every... ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis... ALBERT CAMUS He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�... SUZAN TISDALE If your friendship, relationship, amorousness of that of many years has dead-ended, you feel your wo... PEX PARKER Saving a worthy relationship is easier than trying to start a new one. DENNIS E. ADONIS I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. MARY OLIVER It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever ... DEBORAH MEIER Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as w... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. Bu... JOHN PIPER I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because... EDWARD EVERETT HALE If you think you are too small to make a difference, you have obviously never been in bed with a mos... PETER STROPLE Make a difference always and in all ways! PETER STROPLE You want to establish a relationship with a breeder or a store. LISA PETERSON - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem. - Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Instant chemistry feels great! It is a raw, organic emotion. The art and science of relationship che... SUSAN C. YOUNG When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It a... PAULO COELHO Those who say they "sleep like a baby" haven't got one. A NEW MOTHER Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the ... SHANNON L. ALDER You're starting to think of me as a writer of choral works, right? That's all right. I like that. JOE NEGRI You can always evaluate a man's character by the way he speaks about his ex girlfriends and other wo... MIYA YAMANOUCHI It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE It's a new minute, a new hour and a new day cherish it !!!!!!! BONNIE ZACKSON KOURY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody. J.D. SALINGER When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of. FRANCESCO TOTTI
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