““You need money that badly?”
“As a tool, certainly. Its application is simple and universally effective.””
Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 4 “Across the Amathel” section 3 (p. 190)
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“Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.”
[Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait: supplementing the two volumes of Scientific papers published in 1898 and 1900, Cambridge University Press, 1911, http://www.archive.org/details/lifescientificwo00knotrich, 1]
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 36, “Less Talents” (p. 251)
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
Variant: Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
p10, 3rd principle of the 12 Principles of EPIC
I, Governor of California and How I Ended Poverty (1933)