"The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi."

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Source : Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.

Beth Henley

#Christmas Quotes #Writing Quotes #School Quotes

“A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life.”
“The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.”
“People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.”
“There's nothing a man can do, that I can't do better and in heels”
“I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.”
“With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.”
“It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class.”
“Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and it is going to work in your favor. The scope of female professional superiority can be understood by so few men that mostly they do not miss it.”

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