"Practice at hunger makes the fast easier."

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Source : Julie Orringer (2010). “The Invisible Bridge”, p.73, Vintage

Julie Orringer

#Practice Quotes #Hunger Quotes #Easier Quotes

“English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.”
“It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!”
“Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.”
“I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.”
“I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4”
“This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.”
“The easiest way to separate yourself from the unformed blobby mass of "aspiring" writers is to a) actually write and b) actually finish. That's how easy it is to clamber up the ladder to the second echelon. Write. And finish what you write. That's how you break away from the pack and leave the rest of the sickly herd for the hungry wolves of shame and self-doubt. And for all I know, actual wolves.”
“I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!”

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