All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up. David Eddings Read Quote
I’ve fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life. David Eddings Read Quote
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I’m very happy I didn’t submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. David Eddings Read Quote
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. David Eddings Read Quote
Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I’m teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious! David Eddings Read Quote
The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day. David Eddings Read Quote
I taught in a small teacher’s college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn’t. David Eddings Read Quote
When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, ‘Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.’ That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life. David Eddings Read Quote
