Wickham Place London Quotes

#1. Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.

Meghan Daum

#3. My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.

Jean Craighead George

#4. I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself.

David Rees

#5. Everybody's got their tools or their instruments, and it's fun to see how people expose themselves to their profession or their profession becomes who they are.

David Gordon Green

#6. Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

Henry Taylor

#7. I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

Homer Hickam