"I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone."

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Source : Brewster Ghiselin (1985). “The Creative Process: A Symposium”, p.126, Univ of California Press

Brewster Ghiselin

#Writing Quotes #Mentor Quotes

“Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.”
“Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.”
“A happy genius is the gift of nature.”
“Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age-and all of our fears that it carries-will "rub off" on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.”
“Ðs long as I've got an audience out there to play for, I'm going to continue to play. I have at least enough people that I can go out on the road for 10, 11 weeks at a time.”
“I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.”
“If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.”

Source : "How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin Can Help Cure Aging". Interview with Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. October 19, 2010.
“In an odd wayÂ (the death of John Daly)Â is cheering news!”

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