"You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are doing it better than you ever could."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Melissa Febos

#Writing Quotes #Maggie Quotes #Nelson Quotes

“You cannot innovate by copying.”
“I have never used steroids. Period.”
“Reform is born of need, not pity.”
“Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.”

Source : Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com. May 18, 2010.
“The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.”
“For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.”
“There's only one thing worse than not paying attention to girls in gangs - it's paying attention to girls in gangs. The public reaction to girls and women who engage in nontraditional behavior - the hysteria that often surrounds girls in these groups - is almost as interesting as the behavior itself.”
“At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.”

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