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novelists lessons
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this." Tom Perrotta
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If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.' Philip Larkin
novelists academic written
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. A. S. Byatt
novelists males
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. Curtis Sittenfeld
novelists
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. Ray Bradbury
poet poets today truest
All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful. Wilfred Owen
poetry literature logic
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young
poetry poverty instinct
A person born with an instinct for poverty. Elbert Hubbard
poetry religion may
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion. Anna Jameson
poetry doe veils
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. E. B. White
poetry bankers mysterious
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. Allen Tate
poetry pardon burned
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd. Alexander Pope
poetry together groups
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. Christopher Morley
poetry labels coins
My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. Anne Sexton
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If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life. Brian Tracy
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If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good. Antonio Porchia
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Everything works if you let it Rick Nielsen
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It Will Be As If I Never Existed Stephenie Meyer
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What's the point of beauty if it's only seen by one? Tablo
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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself. John Milton
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If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life. Thandie Newton
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Get the 1.0 out as soon as possible...even if it sucks. Matt Mullenweg
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse. Namie Amuro