Tobsha Learner Professions : Writer Browse All Authors Top 28 quotes by Tobsha Learner Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires. Tobsha Learner empiresinformationknowledge The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate. Tobsha Learner worst-enemyhatehatred 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 lasheshumiliationscar 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 designperceptionmen Danger is an aphrodisiac. Tobsha Learner aphrodisiacdanger 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 emotionalnew-relationshipwriting Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival. Tobsha Learner faithbelievechildren You must appreciate that love is the last reason for which a man marries. Tobsha Learner appreciatelove-ismen 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 craftsweaknessfirsts 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 piecesdifferentplay 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 atheistphilosophyfather To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac. Tobsha Learner aphrodisiacdesirable 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 balancechallengesmoving 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 passionseadesire 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 ravensmorningtwo 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 onionstearseye 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 distancenovelistslong Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse. Tobsha Learner ifs Living is a hazardous profession. Tobsha Learner professionlife Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writerAll Authors
