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“I think, oddly, that the world of the amateur is quite self-contained, and it depends on "likes" from other amateurs to perpetuate itself. Of course an awful lot of my colleagues are involved with Instagram - they get likes and dislikes, maybe just likes, I don't know - but I think that it's far less self-contained, the world I work in. It goes off in different directions, and is dependent on responses different from a tick or a like or whatever.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.”
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“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
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“Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren’t holding any paper.”
Source : Ariel Gore (2007). “How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights”, p.7, Three Rivers Press
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“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
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“Dress for the story that you’d like to have people know about you before you even open your mouth.”
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“The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.”
Source : F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, p.17, Harriman House Limited
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“Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.”
Source : Hugh Miller (1870). “The Headship of Christ: And, The Rights of the Christian People : a Collection of Essays, Historical and Descriptive Sketches, and Personal Portraitures with the Author's Celebrated Letter to Lord Brougham”, p.354
