"Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand."

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Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

Anne Enright

#Writing Quotes #World Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.”

Source : Helene Deutsch (1973). “Girlhood”
“I'm a bargain shopper.”
“I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.”

Source : Morgan Llywelyn (2010). “Lion of Ireland”, p.275, Macmillan
“I mean, what good is a women's lib if we can't use it to ask guys to dances?”

Source : Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.113, Egmont UK
“To get people to eat well don’t say a word about health, just cook fantastic food for them.”
“We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.”

Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.120, Verso
“The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.”
“As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.”

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