"Essayists must not only be succinct but have original ideas and, even harder to come by, or to fake, likable voices. Consciously or not, they endeavor to win us over by charm. If an essayist can not only charm but write the unforgettable sentence, one that reveals the heart in a few words, I'm her slave."

-- Cyra McFadden

#Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.”
“Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.”
“When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.”

Source : Charles Finch (2008). “The September Society”, p.45, Macmillan
“When I was writing some of songs for the record in Galapagos it was the feeling of being there I wanted to evoke more than anything. I remember hearing all the parts of the songs in my mind when I was walking around over the lava fields.”

Source : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.
“Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”
“I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.”
“I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.”
“Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.”

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