“You know what the trick of a long life is, Sharpe? Stay out of range.”
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
Doctor Pickering, p. 133
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Trafalgar (2000)
Discussing the secret to a successful relationship to Ryan Seacrest at the 2011 Grammy Awards.
“You know what the trick of a long life is, Sharpe? Stay out of range.”
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
Doctor Pickering, p. 133
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Trafalgar (2000)
“The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.”
Harlan Ellison book Strange Wine
Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 182 https://books.google.com/books/about/Voices_of_Vision.html?id=Nu4vUZT-7ToC&hl=en <br class="br">Source: Strange Wine
Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist
Trip of a Lifetime (1999)
Context: What I always wanted to be was a magician... My real upbringing when I was a teenager was doing magic shows, all over the state, with my father and brothers. Doing magic, you not only have to be able to do a trick, you have to have a little story line to go with it. And writing is essentially a trick.
“There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
As quoted in The Art of Expressing the Human Body (1998) edited by John R. Little, p. 23
Context: There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.
Tony Vigorito (1950) American writer
Nine Kinds of Naked (2008)
“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 524
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William Laud (1573–1645) Archbishop of Canterbury
Source: Letter to William Chillingworth (15 September 1637), quoted in The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Volume V—History of His Chancellorship, &c (1853), p. 184