"The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from."

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Source : Attributed without citation in Blythe Camenson "How to Sell, Then Write Your Nonfiction Book", p. 188, 2002.

Gene Fowler

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“Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.”
“It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.”
“Artists are just entrepreneurs. It's up to them to figure out how or if they can make a monetary profit from their passion − from their calling, as I discussed above. Sometimes they can. Musicians can sell music, even in the face of piracy. Or they can sell their services − concerts, etc. Painters and other artists can profit in similar ways. A novelist could use kickstarter for a sequel or get paid to consult on a movie version.”

Source : "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.
“You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.”
“Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.”
“I wouldn't hunt a person down for food. But if he were already dead.”
“When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.”
“When the uniqueness of a place sings to us like a melody, then we will know, at last, what it means to be home”

Source : Paul Gruchow (1988). “The Necessity of Empty Places”

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