"If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it."

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Source : "Ask the Author Live: Judith Thurman on Laura Ingalls Wilder". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2009.

Judith Thurman

#World Quotes #Sentences Quotes #Translations Quotes

“You can't change who you are but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought act on it.”
“You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.”
“Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience”
“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
“You have to leave room in life to dream.”
“It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.”

Source : John Christopher (2015). “The Sword of the Spirits”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
“Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.”
“Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.”

Source : Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. June 15, 2006.

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