Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.Quote by Lynn Abbey about love, writing, common sense, sense
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein...Quote by Joseph Addison about education, body, soul, human imperfections
Your bivouac for the night is the spot where you got tired of marching that day.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, night, day, contentment
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.Quote by Elayne Boosler about man, woman, contentment