"I can only gesture at what makes a story good."

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Leonard Michaels

#Teaching Quotes #Stories Quotes #Gestures Quotes

“Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back.”
“Everybody's got creativity. You just get more of it [when you meditate].”
“We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say...”

Source : Margaret George (2011). “Helen of Troy: A Novel”, p.708, Pan Macmillan
“There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.”
“I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.”
“Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.”
“I pride myself on being a Legend Killer.”
“Our bodies look solid, but they arent. Were like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can put your fingers right through it. Our bodies look like things, but theres no thingness to them.”

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