Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs! Tobsha Learner More Quotes by Tobsha Learner More Quotes From Tobsha Learner Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires. Tobsha Learner empires information knowledge The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate. Tobsha Learner worst-enemy hate hatred We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love. Tobsha Learner sometimes Humiliation scars deeper than the lash. Tobsha Learner lashes humiliation scar Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed. Tobsha Learner design perception men Danger is an aphrodisiac. Tobsha Learner aphrodisiac danger Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival. Tobsha Learner faith believe children You must appreciate that love is the last reason for which a man marries. Tobsha Learner appreciate love-is men Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft. Tobsha Learner crafts weakness firsts Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along. Tobsha Learner pieces different play I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an atheist, I still believe strongly in the power of free will (despite the mysticism in my prose). I don't believe in the notion of a pre-ordained destiny, and I think because of the sudden death of my father at sixteen I learnt then that it is essential to live life to the fullest as it could be snatched away at any second. Tobsha Learner atheist philosophy father To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac. Tobsha Learner aphrodisiac desirable As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other. Tobsha Learner balance challenges moving This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence. Tobsha Learner passion sea desire Two bones fell down my chimney and into the bedroom this morning. Hysterical thing to happen to a thriller writer. Murderous ravens perhaps? Tobsha Learner ravens morning two Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes. Tobsha Learner onions tears eye The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front. Tobsha Learner distance novelists long Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse. Tobsha Learner ifs Living is a hazardous profession. Tobsha Learner profession life It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters. Tobsha Learner widows women responsibility
