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Anthologist Inspirational Quotes (38)

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Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.
Alfred Kreymborg
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Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.
Lee Bennett Hopkins
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Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to save our own skins. Love also makes us save ourselves, but it will make us move to save others as well.
Sonia Sanchez
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And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.
Sonia Sanchez
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I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.
Geoffrey Madan
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The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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it is midnight no magical bewitching hour for me
Sonia Sanchez
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So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don't like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.
Geoffrey Madan
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Book publishing was never a heaven run by editors, and it is by no means today a hell run by accountants. If our sole interest was instant profit, not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn't be in book publishing at all.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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The best style is the least noticeable.
Whit Burnett
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Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.
Sonia Sanchez
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The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.
Geoffrey Madan
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Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.
August Derleth
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What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is very complex. It reaches all the complexities of our life on this Earth. Peace - that's a very complex idea, peace, so we can't get it as human beings.
Sonia Sanchez
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Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.
Sonia Sanchez
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Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
Whit Burnett
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I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.
Sonia Sanchez
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Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.
Lee Bennett Hopkins
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I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.
Sonia Sanchez
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