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The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire…
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Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living and changing…
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In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex,…
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Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized,…
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Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.
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The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express…
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In Literature, only trouble is interesting.
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The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing…
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If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in…
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What is the pattern of change?
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I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to…
— Max Beerbohm
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In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex,…
— Janet Burroway
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The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the…
— Will Ferguson
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There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.
— Harold E. Varmus
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One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.
— Justin Cronin
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Small minds can never handle great themes.
— St. Jerome
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They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than…
— John O'Hara
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I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't…
— Stan Kenton
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