"I've found a bit of success in my career, and I'm very relieved by it, but the success that comes after a book is published is never as happy as the feeling of writing, of knowing you've written something good, of feeling like you've had a worthwhile day in the chair. That's the best feeling I know, and as soon as writing stops making me feel that way, I'll stop doing it."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Lauren Grodstein

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Poetry is basically built out of what I think of as being a fairly political act at its core: "I'm not going to listen to how you described things. I'm going to look at them much more intensely and carefully than most people do, and certainly more intensely than our culture wants us to." The mission of the poem, of course, is to try to find the way to do that in the smallest amount of space possible.”
“I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.”
“I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.”
“If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.”

Source : Academy of Archievment interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
“One of the important principles I live by is the idea that you have to contemplate yourself as surrounded by the conditions you intend to produce.”
“Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.”
“Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!”
“Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states,”

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