"The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of a publisher and an audience, but what is valued in fiction writing - style, individual voice, insight - is scorned by the editor who is combing through your newspaper article."

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Jon Weisman

#Writing Quotes #Editors Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Nothing like a little chest pain to restore your faith.”
“Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.”
“My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.”
“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
“Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect. If a work of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal.”

Source : Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.1, Pendragon Press
“This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.”
“My biggest fear is love and getting hurt in love but still believing.”
“I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.”

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