"As writers, we don't just need to write……" — Jennifer Gilmore
"As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience."
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20 Quotes by Jennifer Gilmore
Jennifer Gilmore has 20 quotes on this site.
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I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you…
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History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
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I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come…
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I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that…
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I really don't feel that writing is therapy.
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I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.
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I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8,…
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Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do…
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I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate…
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I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry…
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I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For…
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I think that when the world feels safe and secure, we probably feel more that way in our personal lives.…
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More Experience Quotes
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
— Hannah Arendt
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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