"When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone and you've been written out of history as effectively as the old Stalinists would write someone else out, take their photograph out of a book."

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Frederic Tuten

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Editors Quotes

“Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.”
“In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
“I've always been very bonded to animals - more so than most people. (laughs) I don't think that they can defend themselves, so we have to help them.”
“I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally listen to or want to hear.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2006.
“Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.”

Source : "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview With Kirby Wright". Interview with George Wallace, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.
“A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and you shall: Find me on water Purify me through fire Trapped by earth nevermore Air will whisper to you What spirit already knows: That even shattered anything is possible If you believe Then we shall both be free.”

Source : Shirley Maclaine (2011). “Out on a Limb”, p.8, Bantam
“Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.”
“Quite a lot of what we normally think of as human culture doesn't fit some definition. What are the values behind cuisine, which is a form of human culture? Does it have deep values? I don't know - I would say not. But maybe I'm not a foodie.”

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