Scrumping Quotes

#1. Even though my brother and I loved scrumping - we loved the act of climbing trees and grabbing fruit - there was always fear we would be caught. We feared we'd be imprisoned, sent to Australia.

Jim Crace

#2. There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

Ezra Pound

#3. If you worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. But if you worshipped Allah, know that Allah never dies.

Yasmin Mogahed

#4. You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.

Orson Scott Card

#5. Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into the city where he had almost been stoned to death, and he said, "Hey, about that sermon I didn't finish preaching - here it is!"

John Hagee

#6. I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher

Rick Riordan

#7. Passion without perseverance
is fire without fuel.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#8. No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

Karl Popper