"I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction."

-- Jesmyn Ward

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“As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.”
“Suspense is worse than disappointment.”
“I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.”
“In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.”

Source : Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1848). “The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.14
“I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.”
“In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.”

Source : "So Much For That". Interview with Bret Anthony Johnston, www.nationalbook.org. 2010.
“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .”

Source : Epicurus (1993). “The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments”
“The great news is we have an all-female shortlist with no positive discrimination or anything, isn't that fantastic?”

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