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Fiction Writer Inspirational Quotes (380)

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Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.
Patricia Wentworth
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You never know you're in a bubble until it pops.
Andrew Revkin
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I'm trying mostly to ask questions. And not just trying to stake out a position on something, but also trying to define the stuff we agree on. I'm having battles with comment posters trying to insert a little sense of order so it's not just a long pissing match between the edges, which is what I think a lot of the blogosphere is tending to do.
Andrew Revkin
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There are still people who essentially live in intellectual silos and either read Mother Jones or watch Fox News, based on their worldview. And they pick information out that reinforces it rather than keeping an open mind.
Andrew Revkin
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I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental.
Andrew Revkin
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The responsibility of the scientist or journalist is to convey the context. If you're talking about the Arctic Sea ice, you have to embrace the reality that there's a huge number of other things that influence that on a year-to-year basis.
Andrew Revkin
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Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may have tipped the balance...a particularly harsh jolt to polar bears.
Andrew Revkin
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Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
Amy Plum
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My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one
Amy Plum
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Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.
Amy Plum
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My writing circle isn't too full of people who fall into the Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Tuesdays With Morrie category.
Alissa Nutting
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Luckily I'm on prescription drugs that prevent me from worrying about anything too much.
Alissa Nutting
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I'm a big people pleaser I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.
Alissa Nutting
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It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you read a book because you like the character, you are cheering for the character you want the best for the character.
Alissa Nutting
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I've worked hard on my doctorate, and I want to be acknowledged for that. But I also wanted to comment on this message that women get that the most important thing they can do is police their appearance.
Alissa Nutting
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I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.
Alissa Nutting
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I think that in our culture there is this message to males that any time you can have sex with an attractive female, you should do it. But for females you always have to guard yourself against it, sort of keep sex at bay. You don't want to get a reputation, especially when you are under age.
Alissa Nutting
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You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we'd go steady for a few intense months, and then we'd have a really ugly breakup.
Alissa Nutting
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exercise will never be my lover. Or even my friend. For me, a workout is more like an annoying coworker I have to see a few times a week.
Alissa Nutting
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Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus & weep to keep a diary.
Alissa Nutting
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You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.
Nancy Kress
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I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.
Ben Fountain
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As writer pay declined and teacher pay also, we all started hanging out online. You could say online social networks cheapen our friendships or you could say we were cheapened by a plutocratic power grab and this is all we can afford.
Alexander Chee
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I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.
Alexander Chee
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