"Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny."

-- Anne Lamott

#Writing Quotes #Being Positive Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The mine owners do not find the gold...”
“The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment”
“There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.”
“As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.”
“I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.”
“By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.”

Source : Axis Rule in Occupied Europe preface (1944).
“The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.”
“You're either on the bus or off the bus.”

Source : Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.97, Macmillan

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