“I wake up every morning and think: You know what would be good today? Not dying.”
Rick Riordan (1964) American writer
Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
“Every morning I wake up and think good, another 24 hours' pipe-smoking.”
A rare interview with Tolkien (1966) — "Tolkien's shire" by John Ezard, The Guardian (28 December 1991) http://www.theguardian.com/books/1991/dec/28/jrrtolkien.classics
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