"Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case basis. When an editor tells me something isn't working and I still believe in it, I tend to think it just isn't working hard enough."

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Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

Jami Attenberg

#Jobs Quotes #Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.”
“The key points in my life as a kid were so scattered that I was most comfortable in, like, airports.”
“One look at love and you may see it weaves a web over mystery, all ravelled threads can rend apart for hope has a place in the lover's heart. Hope has a place in a lover's heart.”

Source : Song: Hope Has A Place, Album: The Memory Of Trees, 1995
“I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.”

Source : "Terrence J Becomes the Host With the Most on His Plate". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. October 24, 2012.
“The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.”

Source : John Hersey (1970). “Letter to the alumni”, Not Avail
“People who understand basketball definitely appreciate what I bring to the table.”

Source : "Q&A with Mavs center Chandler". Interview with Paul Forrester, www.si.com. August 25, 2010.
“The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.”
“Every time someone takes a sip of Guinness, a part of straight marriage dies,”

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