"The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother to show it to my agent or editor. He's a truly great writer - author of Gates of the Alamo and other books you might know of, and his instincts about what's working in a story, and what's not, are just about perfect. My books would be very different without his influence."

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Elizabeth Crook

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Editors Quotes

“Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.”

Source : Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.120, Beacon Press
“If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.”
“We frequently hear how essential it is for someone to think "outside the box," but what actually determines one's facility for doing so? In other words, what skills make someone a creative thinker? Typically, creative thinkers can view issues from multiple perspectives, define problems in several different ways, and anticipate likely obstacles. Someone's aptitude for these skills determines how well he or she will perform as a creative thinker.”
“in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2014). “The Sundial”, p.25, Penguin
“To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.”

Source : Lillian Eugenia Smith (1954). “The journey”, World Publishing Company
“Romance isn't just about roses or killing dragons or sailing a kayak around the world. It's also about chocolate chip cookies and sharing The Grateful Dead and James Taylor with me in the middle of the night, and believing me when I say that you could be bigger than both of them put together, and not making fun of me for straightening out my french fries or pointing my shoelaces in the same direction, and letting me pout when I don't get my own way, and pretending that if I play "Flower Drum Song" one more time you won't throw me and the record out the window”
“Two late goals, both in the last twenty minutes...”
“The only love she inspires is the canine kind.”

Source : Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.163, Bloomsbury Publishing

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