Violet Duke quotes
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“I read two to three books a day anyway (I only sleep about two hours a night, and I read really fast).”
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“When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the world of beautiful words.”
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“I drag my husband out of bed, hook him up to a coffee to stay awake and make him listen to my plotting and any issues I may be having. I *need* his head-nodding (he's an expert head-nodder).”
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“I'm a well-intentioned plotter who ends up with wondrous pantsing revelations and (at times) ginormous rewrites that look almost nothing like my carefully plotted plans.”
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“While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get nowhere to begin with.”
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“I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.”
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“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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“Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.”
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“Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.”
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Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House