Posts Tagged ‘quotes’
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In Loose Change on December 10, 2015 at 2:31 pm
“The extreme clarity of the desert light
is equaled by the extreme individuation
of desert life forms.”
―Edward Abbey
Desert Solitaire
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In Loose Change on September 8, 2015 at 6:03 am
“Dear writer: We regret to say that your recent submission…”
According to Guy Winch, in his book, Emotional First Aid, “Rejections can cause four distinct psychological wounds, the severity of which depends on the situation and our emotional health at the time. Specifically, rejections elicit emotional pain so sharp it affects our thinking, floods us with anger, erodes our confidence and self-esteem, and destabilizes our fundamental feeling of belonging.”
Yup. That’s why I decided to write fiction. The fringe benefits.
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In Loose Change on August 26, 2015 at 6:30 am
“Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful!”
—Samuel Beckett
“Waiting for Godot”
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In Loose Change on July 31, 2015 at 6:05 am
“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
—Samuel Beckett
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In Loose Change on September 14, 2014 at 7:18 am
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different worlds on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
— E. Annie Proulx
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In Loose Change on September 7, 2014 at 1:42 pm
“I have never taken rejection as an obstacle to my writing. It has remained, at times, an obstacle to my publishing.”
—Frederick Busch
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In Loose Change on September 3, 2014 at 1:12 pm
“No one decides that we should answer the call of the muse. If you answer the call, that’s your responsibility”
—Wesley Brown
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In Loose Change on July 18, 2014 at 7:00 am
“Any fool can make a rule and every fool will follow it.”
—Henry Thoreau
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In Loose Change on July 1, 2014 at 9:28 am
“The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own.”
—Michael Korda, former Editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster
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In Loose Change on June 17, 2014 at 7:30 am
“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
—Carol Shields
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In Loose Change on June 7, 2014 at 4:40 pm
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham
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