"Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds."

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Source : Bonnie Friedman (1993). “Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life”

Bonnie Friedman

#Mind Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Body Quotes

“If one's work environment isn't able to provide individuals with meaning, people will seek out one that does.”

Source : Source: www.hr.com
“First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do ...”

Source : Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.250, Atlantic Monthly Press
“At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.”
“You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that's waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.”
“In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.”
“I've got to show at all times that I'm willing to tear any emcee a new asshole, at any given moment.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“Start with a 'Yes', and see where that takes you.”

Source : "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.
“The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.”

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