Charles Todd quotes

“I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life.”
-- Charles Todd

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“I often speak to returning service people about their experiences while serving. Whether in 1915 or 2005, the core issue of facing death on a daily basis remains.”
-- Charles Todd

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“During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.”
-- Charles Todd

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“My great uncle fought in WWI. His stories fascinated me.”
-- Charles Todd

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“I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.”
-- Charles Todd

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“The individual writer is a lonely figure in the wilderness of agents, editors, chain bookstores, and dwindling numbers of independents. The stronger MWA can be, the better it can serve us, and the more respect it can bring to bear in dealing with the problems most of us face every day.”
-- Charles Todd

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“I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel.”

“The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.121, Emblem Editions

“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”

“I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.”

“You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.”

Source : Joe Vitale (2010). “The Awakening Course: The Secret to Solving All Problems”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?”

“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”

“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”

“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”

“As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.”