"It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a short story. You would pick up the magazines and you would be taught from the magazines how to write a short story. Nowadays student writers are learning to write novels because that market is gone, so the ones who are drawn to the form are doing it really for reasons of their own and that's really exciting."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Lorin Stein

#Writing Quotes #Students Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”

Source : The Valley of Fear ch. 1 (1915)
“The political future for Democrats is daunting.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Companies arenâ€™t families. Theyâ€™re battlefields in a civil war.”
“They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.”
“I guess I try and learn all the time from every experience in life, so my thinking is a hybrid of everything. I'd have to attribute some of that to my work in the fashion industry - in some obscure way.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.”
“I really believe in 3-D. I really think it is the wave of the future for cinema.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.”

Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.16, Lulu.com

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