"I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not."

-- V. S. Naipaul

#Writing Quotes #Two Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.”
“There's also a way that you have of being precise but also allusive, that works well for me - it's something about the open-hearted way you frame your queries. Instead of feeling daunted or discouraged, I feel excited to give whatever it is a try. This takes a lot of editorial wisdom and confidence - to know just how to get the writer to take that extra chance.”
“The Internet has leveled the investment playing field.”
“Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.”
“I worked on a number of projects that were used by millions of people and that also served as inspiration to what we now call "crowd-sourcing."”
“Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe or city, then spread to the much larger unit of the nation, and finally from the nation to mankind as a whole.”
“Life isn't what it's like in the movies.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.
“I don't even know - for me, it's difficult to decide which is more important - the things or the thoughts. It seems to me that certain things came up more or less naturally.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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