"I can tell you that I never begin……" — Kevin Brockmeier
"I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title centered at the top of the first page."
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20 Quotes by Kevin Brockmeier
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People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who…
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With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an…
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There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to…
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A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the…
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Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it…
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Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love…
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There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.
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...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's…
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You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and…
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You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of…
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How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you…
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Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day…
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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