"I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it."

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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

Joan Larkin

#Writing Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Stories Quotes

“To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.”
“In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.”

Source : "Tynan on Richardson". The Observer Magazine, December 18, 1977.
“The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.”
“When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.”
“I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!”
“People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or choked to death for having cigarettes or playing their music too loud.”
“Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.”
“The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.”

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