"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."

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Jonathan Coe

#Labels Quotes #Accurate Quotes #Feels Quotes

“For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.”
“The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.”

Source : "Testimony" by Dmitri Shostakovich, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, (p. 156), 2004.
“When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.”

Source : "Al Michaels Interview" by John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.
“All that I seek is already within me.”
“How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows ...”
“I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.”
“Avoid Prologues. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.”
“As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.”

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