"My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but when it comes to poetry I'm not really interested in writing poetry that seeks to entertain or operate safely within the mainstream and, to be clear, I'm not disparaging the really phenomenal work that does - it's just not my interest as a poet."

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Dawn Lundy Martin

#Writing Quotes #Artist Quotes #Goal Quotes

“We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.”
“No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.”

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“In almost any change there is 20 - 60 - 20. 20% are doing the change and we need to stay out of their way. 20% will never get there (a large percent still go into banks to see tellers vs. ATMs). 60% are in the middle. I think you will always find some companies where the head of HR is not a member of senior management team (bottom 20% and some companies where she or he has always been (top 20%).”

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“Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it,”
“I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.”
“At the other end of the spectrum, George Gideon Oliver King Rameses Osborne, the fourteen-year-old novelty Chancellor and future baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon - a man so posh he probably weeps champagne.”
“Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure”
“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”

Source : Jasper Fforde (2005). “Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.73, Penguin

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