"Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier world that could negotiated more easily and more quickly. In the novel, I even changed the narrator from a man to a woman."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Leni Zumas

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #Narrators Quotes

“I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not occurred to me till reading your letter. It is, however, a great objection to this term that it cannot be used as a substantive governing a verb; and that this is a real objection I infer from H. Spencer continually using the words, natural selection.”
“Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.”
“When I decided to pursue a career as a Muppet Performer when I was in college, it was my hope to be able to play a wide range of Muppet characters in all areas and genres of television and film.”
“What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances - accents, punctuation and so on - that they spend little time thinking about what the words add up to. Iâ€™m interested in using our communication skills to change the way things are.”
“If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.”
“It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.”

Source : "THE SATURDAY PROFILE; Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His 'Problem Child'" by Craig S. Smith, www.nytimes.com. January 7, 2006.
“In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.”
“I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good”

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