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“An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.” quote by Carol Bly — Download Open image

“An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.”

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The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of…

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The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

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The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

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No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

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Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest.

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For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually…

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There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all of us…

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Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel, to make…

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Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences…

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The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind…

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I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red…

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“It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.”

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“There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.”

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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,

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There comes a point where certain things are becoming my Achilles heel; you know when you start repeating yourself and saying the same anecdotes…

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Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories.…

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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation…

George Bernard Shaw

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Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

Kazimir Malevich

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Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

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Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous…

Alberto Manguel

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Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when…

Michael Jackson

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I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private and I…

Natalie Merchant

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Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.

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