in loader/src/main/java/org/apache/geode_examples/loader/QuoteLoader.java [60:101]
Map<String, String> getQuotes() {
Map<String, String> quotes = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, String>();
// sourced from http://www.writersdigest.com/writing-quotes
quotes.put("Anton Chekhov",
"My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.");
quotes.put("C. J. Cherryh",
"It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.");
quotes.put("Dorothy Parker", "I can’t write five words but that I change seven.");
quotes.put("Douglas Adams",
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.");
quotes.put("Emily Dickinson", "A wounded deer leaps the highest.");
quotes.put("Ernest Hemingway", "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.");
quotes.put("F. Scott Fitzgerald",
"Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created – nothing.");
quotes.put("Henry David Thoreau",
"Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.");
quotes.put("Henry Wadsworth Longfellow",
"Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.");
quotes.put("Herman Melville", "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.");
quotes.put("Jean-Paul Sartre", "Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.");
quotes.put("Mark Twain",
"Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.");
quotes.put("Orson Scott Card",
"Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.");
quotes.put("Ray Bradbury",
"Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer.");
quotes.put("Robert Benchley",
"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.");
quotes.put("Somerset Maugham",
"If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.");
quotes.put("Stephen King",
"I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.");
quotes.put("Terry Pratchett",
"There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write.");
quotes.put("Ursula K. Le Guin",
"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.");
quotes.put("William Faulkner",
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.");
return quotes;
}