"The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not."

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Jayne Anne Phillips

#Writing Quotes #Secret Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.”

Source : Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.431, Open Road Media
“Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.”
“The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.”
“I don't e-mail. I've never felt the particular need to e-mail.”
“I don't like nice people. I like tough, honest people.”
“Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.”

Source : Todd Burpo (2011). “Heaven is for Real Deluxe Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.107, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.”
“If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.”

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