"But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up, so someone will tell you, that's all."

-- Grace Paley

#Screw Ups Quotes #Done Quotes #Screws Quotes

“I ended up dropping out of high school. I'm a high school dropout, which I'm not proud to say, ... I had some teachers that I still think of fondly and were amazing to me. But I had other teachers who said, 'You know what? This dream of yours is a hobby. When are you going to give it up?' I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there”
“Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.”
“At 9 years old I weighed about 10 lbs. less than what my weight is at 32. I needed to get help.”
“I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.”
“Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads”
“We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.”
“You trust him, Trace, and you know it." "With my back," Trace snapped. "Not with my sister.”

Source : Lori Foster (2011). “Savor the Danger”, p.55, HQN Books

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