"Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted."

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Francine Prose

#Raw Materials Quotes #Literature Quotes #Materials Quotes

“I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun.”
“Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.”
“There's no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career.”
“As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.”
“The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.”
“By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.”

Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
“I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.”
“Look at the world around you & imagine it in a better way.”

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