"I was so naive about writing, I went……" — Bruce Feiler

"I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era."

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44 Quotes by Bruce Feiler

Bruce Feiler has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out…
There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.
The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing…
May your first word be adventure and last word love.
But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.
One day, my daughter Tybee came to me, and she said, ‘I have so much love for you in my…
Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse…
Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take…
It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six…
After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be…
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special…
I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After…

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Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend… — Derek Bok
A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken.… — John O. Brennan
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be… — A. S. Byatt
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly… — A. S. Byatt
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by… — Noam Chomsky
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community… — John Henrik Clarke
I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help… — Chelsea Clinton
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. — Juvenal
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer… — Bill Gates
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. — Ken Robinson
School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For… — Drew Barrymore

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