“You cannot build an empire hands folded.”— Matshona Dhliwayo Related Quotes “I have only dwelt in my thoughts.”— Lailah Gifty Akita “Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don’t yet understand the characters well enough to write in their vo”— Helen Dunmore “Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.”— Mstislav Rostropovich