"Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer."

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Source : Jean Little (2001). “Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope”, Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada

Jean Little

#Responsibility Quotes #Stories Quotes #Being True Quotes

“Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.”
“Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills. To suffer no longer can be a beautiful, perhaps the ultimate sacrifice.”
“But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.”
“I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth.”
“In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”
“I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only half true.”
“I'll tell you what's wrong!" he roared, "I'm trying to quit smoking!" Then he strode angrily to the truck, leaving her standing there. She blinked her eyes, and slowly a smile stretched her lips. She strolled to the truck and got in. "So, are you homicidal or merely as irritable as a wounded buffalo?" "About halfway in between," he said through clenched teeth. "Anything I can do to help?" His eyes were narrow and intense. "It isn't just the cigarettes. Take off your panties and lock your legs around me, and I'll show you.”
“Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God”

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