"I do find that people are incredibly naive about what it is to be a writer. Like you would pay an incredible amount of money for an MFA program and still not have the slightest idea of how one goes about becoming a writer. So, I'm always flabbergasted when people say, "Oh, I was invited to do a reading, but I'm not going to read because I don't have a book."."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Faith Adiele

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #People Quotes

“You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.”
“Women are women, and hurray for that.”
“The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of every persuasion. Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world.”
“Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other.”
“When my husband of almost 20 years canâ€™t take his eyes off me? Thatâ€™s amazing,”
“Don't cry, you will have good memories from now on.”
“From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.”
“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives”

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