"I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing."

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Source : "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". SRB interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

Edna Longley

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”
“Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.”

Source : Harry Mathews (2002). “The Human Country: New and Collected Stories”
“Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.”

Source : Emma Bull (2009). “Bone Dance: A Fantasy for Technophiles”, p.22, Macmillan
“Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.”

Source : "Jenni Rivera Dies in Mexican Plane Crash, Wreckage is 'Unrecognizable'", www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2012.
“Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.”
“Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.”
“I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture.”
“I think in high school there's so many cliques. You're never safe.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com

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