
“You know what the trick of a long life is, Sharpe? Stay out of range.”
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.”
Doctor Pickering, p. 133
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Trafalgar (2000)
“The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.”
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
Source: Strange Wine
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.”
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.
“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 524
As quoted in ...
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