Literature Quotes - Page 20

• Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

  David Guterson

  Writing, Way, Said

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• I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

  David Guterson

  Block, Artist, Paralyzed

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• I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.

  David Guterson

  Years, Washington State, States

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• I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

  David Guterson

  Generations, Theme, Endure

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• I'm not an urban person.

  David Guterson

  Urban, Persons

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• Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

  David Guterson

  Needs, Addresses, Modernism

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• When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

  David Guterson

  Writing, College, Class

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• I'm proud of being Hispanic.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Proud, Hispanic

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• My mom died when I was 8.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Mom, Died, My Mom

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• I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

  Kate Adie

  Modern Novel, Orange, Judging

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• I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

  Kate Adie

  Violence, Kind

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• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

  Kate Adie

  Drama, Childhood

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• If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

  Kate Adie

  Faults, Way, Danger

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• The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

  Kate Adie

  Silence, Democracy, Information

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• Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

  Kate Adie

  Children, People, Nine

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• My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

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• My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Writing, Years, Pay

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• I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Thinking, Titles, Different

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• If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Race, People, Robots

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• If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

  Lynn Abbey

  Writing, Ideas, Always Trying

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• When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

  Lynn Abbey

  Ideas, Heartbeat, Cloudy

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• If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Twenties, Done, Earth

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• The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Ears, Way, Purses

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• Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Doe, Increase, Overhead

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• SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

  Piers Anthony

  Impossible

  Interview with Dag R., www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

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