Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time … - Donna Tartt

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I'm actually not star-struck. I like to give people their own space and admire them from a distance.

Donna Tartt

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

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The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

Authors, Feels, People, Read, Trouble, Work

I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

Guess, History, Manage, Miracle, Save

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

Color, Concentrating, Rain, Wholly, Writing

There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.

America, American, Bigs, Intellectual, Strain, Thought

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

Couple, Expectations, Line, Production, Years

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Bethany Hamilton

I'm actually not star-struck. I like to give people their own space and admire them from a distance.

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Yehudi Menuhin

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process. . . We have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God, we cannot foresee. The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.

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Neil Armstrong

Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I?

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Juliana Hatfield

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

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Paulo Coelho

The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.

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