"There's a moment in Sarah Manguso's The Guardians when she writes, "I try not to make anything up, and I fail every time." I get giddy when I come across lines like that - when the writer is not only making a meta-move, but one that troubles truth and fiction, the nature of genre itself."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Jill Talbot

#Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes #Failing Quotes

“Apply yourself everyday to just becoming a little bit better.”
“Desperation can make a person do surprising things.”
“There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls.”
“My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence of my own childhood consciousness was in the context of 1970s and 1980s apartheid South Africa and the movement there.”
“The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when no other nation was willing to take up that defense. Churchill was the greatest military, political and spiritual leader of the 20th century.”
“Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.”

Source : "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who", (10.4, "Planet of the Daleks"), 7 April - 12 May, 1973.
“Pop culture used to be like LSD â€“ different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. Itâ€™s now like crack â€“ isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.”
“Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words.”

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