"It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books."

-- Jennifer Weiner

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Men Quotes

“The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.”
“In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception?”
“It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.”
“Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.”
“All about my riches/ My name should be Richard”
“But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.”

Source : John Trumbull (1839). “M'Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos”, p.7
“I've always been drawn to playing characters that are a completely the opposite of myself.”
“When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.”

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