"Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and gall. And you have to love to read books, all kinds of books, good books. You are not looking for anything in particular; you are just letting stuff seep in."

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Source : "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.

Stephen Dobyns

#Jobs Quotes #Book Quotes #Humility Quotes

“There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.”

Source : Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.96, Moody Publishers
“Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.”

Source : Ann Aguirre (2014). “The Razorland Trilogy”, p.845, Macmillan
“There are some people I've met and it's stressful just speaking to them, because they're really pretentious and I don't know how to talk to them without being pretentious back.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.”
“I said i was dying not that i wanted to liveâ€”
“Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”
“I'm sorry but I've been on my own a long time. I don't know what to talk when I bump into other people.”
“The truth was this: Love is a decision.”

Source : Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley (2010). “Redemption”, p.39, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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