"Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's."

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Source : Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

Dorianne Laux

#Writing Quotes #Simple Quotes #Metaphor Quotes

“This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.”
“Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.”
“We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades" - Frances Brown”
“...we cannot simply recommend love and compassion per se, for those unfold from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and do we really want an increase in ethnocentric love?”
“Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.”
“We're all going to hell for the songs we sing.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jerry Lee Lewis". "Walk The Line", www.imdb.com. 2005.
“You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!”
“You don't just see and feel the movie, you see and feel every day you worked on it.”

Source : "The Untold Story of Ordinary People" by Sara Vilkomerson, microsites.ew.com. 2016.

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