"I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes."

-- Joyce Maynard

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Persons Quotes

“In America, black is a country.”

Source : Amiri Baraka (2009). “Home: Social Essays”, Akashic Books
“The reason so many of us lose our bearings about practising early in life is that we practice in living rooms with other family members in earshot - and healthy practice would simply sound too obnoxious, intrusive, repetitious and unmusical for others to hear without annoyance.”

Source : William Westney (2003). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”
“And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.”

Source : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.”
“There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth”
“Men will be just to men when they are kind to animals.”
“I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not going to happen. We love your voice, but maybe we could use some of your English wit.' He had doubts about it from way back. For starters, we weren't going to be doing the Italian-American crooning thing.”
“What made so many people so upset when Steve Jobs died was that he was a kind of combination of daddy - in this relationship between the machine and ourselves - and also he was our guide. He was the one who led us to look into the mirror. He created these devices that became extensions of ourselves. Suddenly, he wasn't going to hold our hand as we went from product to product, which became increasingly about who we were.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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