Olivia Goldsmith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.
-- Olivia Goldsmith

#Writing #Tasks #Wheat
The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.
-- Olivia Goldsmith

#Happiness #Expectations #Secret
Just like a spider with a line of silk! Did you ever see them throw themselves out into space to weave? They're taking a chance, every single time. They got to do it or else they'd never create anything. But I bet it don't feel good, even to a spider.
-- Olivia Goldsmith

#Space #Feel Good #Lines
As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.
-- Olivia Goldsmith

#Giving Up #Self Esteem #Believe
It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.
-- Olivia Goldsmith

#Wish #Return #Form
Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to getterms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists.
-- Olivia Goldsmith

#Book #Important #Matter
Everyone has different problems, but everyone has some kind of problem.
-- Olivia Goldsmith

#Different #Kind #Problem

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.
The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

Olivia Goldsmith famous quotes

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