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Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

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Simon Mawer
British - Author
Born: 1948

Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

There are many facts within fiction. This captivating story provides invaluable insights into the childhood of a girl who has Asperger’s syndrome. Fiction allows the author to explore different perspectives and add poignancy to the experiences of sensory sensitivity and being bullied and teased of someone who has Asperger’s syndrome. The title Delightfully Different describes Asperger’s syndrome but also the qualities of this novel.

Tony Attwood

I don't think I suffer from Trump derangement syndrome in a sense that I can separate the man from the White House.

Meghan McCain

I am a big self-doubter. I suffer from Impostor Syndrome. Whenever I start a new job, I think: 'I'm going to be found out.' I don't have a huge ego or enormous belief in my own talent.

Les Dennis

This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place.

Karl Marlantes

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

Jonathan Ames

I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

Walker Percy

I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.

Taylor Lautner

Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.

Betty Smith

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

Julius Caesar

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Kurt Vonnegut

I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

Arthur C. Clarke

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

Karl Ove Knausgard

Build your life around 5 key priorities: The Big 5. Any more and you'll suffer from Broken Focus Syndrome.

Robin Sharma

I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

C. J. Box

I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession again and again, but telling different stories to get at that same idea. I'm beginning to think that I suffer from this syndrome, too.

Jesmyn Ward

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