"Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an essay (though I don't write many of the latter)."

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Christine Sneed

#Writing Quotes #Two Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all for three months, and it was agonizing. I looked at reproductions. I stared at Matisse. I stared at the Old Masters. I stared at the Quattrocento. And I thought to myself - Don't push it! If you try too hard to get at something, you almost push it away.”

Source : "Artful Survivor". Interview with Deborah Salomon, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 1989.
“I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.”
“Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.”

Source : Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.132, AK Press
“Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.”
“We cannot create jobs without company owners, the state cannot create jobs by decree.”
“Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could never be happy being anything but a writer, and Mockingbird put itself together for me so accommodatingly, I kept at it because I knew it had to be my first novel, for better or for worse.”
“When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.”

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