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“You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.”
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Ngaio Marsh
Source : Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers
#Writing Quotes
#Design Quotes
#Mastery Quotes
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“You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.”
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Ngaio Marsh
Source : Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers
#Writing Quotes
#Able Quotes
#May Quotes
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“We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.”
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Ngaio Marsh
#Jobs Quotes
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#Waiting Quotes
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“Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.”
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Ngaio Marsh
Source : Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers
#Writing Quotes
#Successful Quotes
#Stylist Quotes
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“if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.”
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Ngaio Marsh
Source : Ngaio Marsh (2012). “Artists in Crime: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #6”, p.122, Felony & Mayhem Press
#May Quotes
#Insult Quotes
#Findings Quotes
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“Expectation is the springboard of achievement.”
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Ngaio Marsh
#Expectations Quotes
#Achievement Quotes
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“Custom makes monsters of us all.”
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Ngaio Marsh
Source : Ngaio Marsh (2012). “Death in Ecstasy: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #4”, p.145, Felony & Mayhem Press
#Monsters Quotes
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“No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells ...”
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Ngaio Marsh
Source : Ngaio Marsh (2016). “Last Ditch: Roderick Alleyn #29”, p.71, Felony & Mayhem Press
#Coffee Quotes
#Smell Quotes
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“No art should be fashionable ...”
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Ngaio Marsh
#Art Quotes
#Should Quotes
#Fashionable Quotes
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“As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.”
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Ngaio Marsh
Source : Ngaio Marsh (2012). “Death in Ecstasy: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #4”, p.192, Felony & Mayhem Press
#Air Quotes
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“Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.”
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Ngaio Marsh
Source : Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers
#Jobs Quotes
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“It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.”
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Ngaio Marsh
Source : Ngaio Marsh (2012). “Death in a White Tie: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #7”, p.58, Felony & Mayhem Press
#Heart Quotes
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#Speak Quotes
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“One should have the courage of one's loneliness.”
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Ngaio Marsh
Source : Ngaio Marsh (2014). “Singing in the Shrouds: Roderick Alleyn #20”, p.179, Felony & Mayhem Press
#Loneliness Quotes
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