"I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have to write about, because the act of writing is self-generating."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Kate Christensen

#Writing Quotes #Self Quotes #Notion Quotes

“The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.”
“Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.”

Source : Ralph Cudworth (1995). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe”, Burns & Oates
“Don’t brush anything under the rug. Don’t point fingers or do the blame game. A team is a family, and we’re in this together.”
“O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?”
“A black belt is a white belt who never quits!”
“Listen deeper than the music before you put it in the box.”
“Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.”

Source : Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “Changes: A Love Story”, p.168, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.”

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