"I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species."

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Source : Leonard Michaels (1992). “Sylvia: A Fictional Memoir”

Leonard Michaels

#Species Quotes

“Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment, and quit worrying about Winning and losing.”
“All publicity is good publicity.”
“Jazz is what I play for a living.”
“she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.”

Source : Sharon Shinn (2001). “Summers at Castle Auburn”, p.191, Penguin
“We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.”
“It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.”
“Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.”
“What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.”

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