"You cannot predict literary success; the only way……" — Emma Donoghue
"You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well."
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76 Quotes by Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue has 76 quotes on this site.
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The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can…
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Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.
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I've been writing full-time since I was 23,
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The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from…
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Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was…
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She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap,…
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Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm…
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When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about…
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Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
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Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.
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Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and…
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I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
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More Aim Quotes
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
— David Attenborough
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are…
— Bryan Adams
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
— Jacques Barzun
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