"Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds."

-- Rick Bass

#Succeed Quotes #Nonfiction Quotes #Results Quotes

“Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are....”
“My greatest regret is selling my company.”
“I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.”
“I don't think anyone can calculate the effect of having a Jew on the ticket.”

Source : "Gore's Leap Of Faith" by Eric Pooley, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2000.
“I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.”
“To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.”
“Many things that I have accomplished in my life were not because I knew they would make me happy, but because it made my enemies unhappy.”
“But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved in a new level of politics. She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women's movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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