"I always talk to my students about the……" — Kim Edwards
"I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing."
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65 Quotes by Kim Edwards
Kim Edwards has 65 quotes on this site.
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He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He…
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A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.
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He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl…
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But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would…
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It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped…
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Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.
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It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.
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She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.
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I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people
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He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to…
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That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.
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The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that…
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More Acclaim Quotes
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one of 44 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in…
— John Donne
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When I arrived at the point where I received public acclaim, I felt the most lowly, because I knew within…
— Walter Russell
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough…
— David Foster Wallace
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The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these…
— John T. Flynn
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To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but,…
— Robin Williams
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A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want…
— Saif Ali Khan
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We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Is success just about winning? Acclaim? Trophies? Wealth? Our personal happiness or satisfaction? I have been blessed to experience some…
— Tom Osborne
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As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've…
— James Ellroy
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A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim…
— Laozi
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It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love…
— Steve Almond
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The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters…
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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