"All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life."

-- Nancy Friday

#Writing Quotes #Effort Quotes #Paradox Quotes

“In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.”
“I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.”
“If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.”
“I have a soft spot for bad boys.”
“He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.”
“In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;â€”in that of poets of amusementâ€”in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,â€”and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.”
“The best predictor of a woman's involvement in terrorism, whether it's a secular or religious group, is a relationship with a terrorist: her father, brother, husband or even her son. Terrorism becomes a bit of a family business.”
“The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.”

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