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Authors
Elizabeth Neel
"I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine." --
Source : Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.
Elizabeth Neel
#Book Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#School Quotes
“You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.”
“One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.”
“Without going too deep, without globalization I am not sure everyone would be able to have a supercomputer in their pocket at the low cost.”
Source : Source: nordic.businessinsider.com
“I believe women are too hard on themselves. I believe that when you love someone, she becomes beautiful to you. I believe the eyes see everything through the heart. Nothing in the world feels as good as resting them on someone you love.”
Source : Katherine Center (2009). “Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel”, p.233, Ballantine Books
“If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is.”
“It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.”
“If you want to be a well-paid copywriter, please your client. If you want to be an award-winning copywriter, please yourself. If you want to be a great copywriter, please your reader.”
“I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.”