"Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces."

-- Allegra Goodman

#Writing Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Forget Quotes

“There are people that smuggle drugs, human trafficking, and terrorism but there are throngs and throngs of people that come through that aren't seeking to hurt anyone. They just want to feed their family.”
“I use the N word almost daily. It reminds me that I'm successful”
“I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.”

Source : John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”
“To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.”
“I love my football club. I love Essendon, I've always been apart of it and I want to be part of it going forward.”
“A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.”

Source : "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang (p. 43), 2006.
“When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?”
“This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows.”

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