Sakellariou Aftos Quotes & Sayings

The more time you can put between you and your manuscript, the more fresh your eyes become and the more mistakes you'll catch. Let a chapter rest for a day, you'll see ways to improve it. Let your completed book rest a month or more and you'll see stuff that's long or that you want to skip. Read it out loud to get rid of awkward phrases and listen to your critique partners if they are good. — Dan Alatorre

Sophie, you must be careful," he said. "Quentin is in the rush of exhilaration that sometimes overtakes people new to God, and you mustn't rush into a commitment until you know he is a man to whom you can be loyal in good times and bad, for better and for worse. You will be joining your life with his for all time. You will walk alongside him into whatever valleys or sorrows come his way, agreeing to help shoulder the burdens. His money and power cannot release you from these obligations. That is the nature of the marriage covenant. — Elizabeth Camden

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible. — Gary Hume

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. — Victor Hugo

I don't think I came to music. I think music came to me - or was already embedded when I came into this sphere, this realm, this Earth. — June Millington

I had not learned then that death avoids a man who desires it, to snatch at him whose heart holds fast to life. — Mika Waltari

You can't test courage cautiously. — Annie Dillard