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Geraldine Brooks has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years…
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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that…
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I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites…
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
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My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort…
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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent…
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Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.
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I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it…
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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the…
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My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
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Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost…
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I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.
— Gore Vidal
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I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.
— Joseph Heller
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I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
— Beverly Cleary
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you…
— Pat Morita
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All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a…
— Martin Amis
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The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If…
— Neil Gaiman
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I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone…
— Rick Bragg
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The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going.…
— Jonathan Dee
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What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.
— Alex Flinn
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His…
— A. E. Hotchner
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