"You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you."

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Erica Jong

#Writing Quotes #Voice Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction”
“There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.”
“If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market.”
“I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.”
“Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.”
“We look, but we don't really see; we hear, but we don't really listen.”
“Catch someone doing something right.”
“To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location - that you don't travel anywhere without spending a few nights reading about the culture and history of the place you are visiting. This is what most of us don't do - we fling ourselves on an exotic destination hoping that someone will tell us what we are looking at, but by that time it's too late, and all the lectures and tour guides simply add to our confusion.”

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