94 7 The Word Quotes

#1. Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.

Fiona McIntosh

#2. Walking is a man's best medicine.

Hippocrates

#3. I am a victor and not a victim.'" She

Joel Osteen

#4. I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union.

Henry L. Benning

#5. Don't chase the paper, chase the dream,

Puff Daddy

#6. She's a planner. She doesn't, you know, wing anything. She likes to make lists and check things off, get things done.

Gillian Flynn

#7. There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.

William Carlos Williams

#8. When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.

Halsey

#9. Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#10. Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her ... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.

Richard Rodney Bennett

#11. I couldn't bear to see a chapter of the gospel turned into a chapter of Trollope.

Louis Auchincloss

#12. The first session of the Congress of the United States under the Constitution was devoted principally to the problems of immediate revenues and administrative and judicial organization.

Charles A. Beard