"If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul."

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Source : David Lehman (2015). “The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014”, p.162, University of Pittsburgh Press

David Lehman

#Writing Quotes #Soul Quotes #Reviews Quotes

“It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.”
“The day you were born, it was already written down the day you're gonna check out. Now, I'm not gonna throw myself under a truck, but I'm not gonna worry about when I die. I'm ready to move on when that day comes.”
“I wonder if I could take back every 'I love you' ever said to you, would I do it?”
“Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.”

Source : John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.214, Vintage
“I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“Make sure to be well informed before accepting the challenge of a commission - check out that you have a source of reference readily available.”
“If you don't keep giving customers reasons to buy from you, they won't”

Source : Sergio Zyman, Armin Brott (2003). “The End of Advertising as We Know It”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons
“A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.”

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