Quotes

I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

Sometimes the ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works. I like a mystery, as you may have noticed.” — J.K. Rowling.

London Highwaymen

A journey to London seemed to us in those by-gone days as hazardous and darken adventure as could be forced on any man. I mean, of course, a poor man: for to a great nobleman with ever so many outriders, attendants, and retainers, the risk was not so great, unless the highwaymen knew of their coming beforehand, and so combined against them. "Lorne Done by Blackmore, Publish Date: Unknown London Life in the Eighteen Century Published in 1930."

London Timekeepers

"They were so frequently robbed of them that a watch must have been a very usual possession and one suspects they were an eighteenth century substitute for a savings bank account. "London Life in the Eighteen Century"