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Short Story Writer Inspirational Quotes (8978)

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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
T. S. Eliot
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Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
Anita Diament
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
Anita Diament
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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
Anita Diament
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What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.
Anita Desai
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Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?
Anita Desai
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Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
Anita Desai
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I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
Anita Desai
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I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
Anita Desai
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Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
Anita Desai
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We are primitive men we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
Christina Stead
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I'm starting to withdraw from [technology] as much as I can. I don't do much of the social media stuff. Like, if I'm on Facebook, it changes my relation to the real world in a way that makes me feel sick - almost like I've had too much sugar or something.
George Saunders
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If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.
Joseph Campbell
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
Anne Tyler
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Jane Austen
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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.
Oscar Wilde
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.
Jane Austen
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My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.
Martin Amis
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
Emile Zola
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Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.
Chinua Achebe
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell
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