"Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers"."

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Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Rose Tremain, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

Rose Tremain

#Criticism Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Preference Quotes

“The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.”
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”

Source : 'The Poet at the Breakfast Table' (1872) ch. 10
“The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.”
“Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).”
“Experience is the highest level of knowing.”
“In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman's right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what. We are not going to be big brother or sister, as the case may be. We are going to allow a woman, her doctor, and her God to make that decision.”
“I use a lot of spices, fresh veggies and fruit, extra virgin olive oil, nuts, avocado, soybeans and organic ingredients as often as possible. We need fat in our diets and using the healthier fats is key.”
“He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.”

Source : 1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Execution of Montrose', stanza14.

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