When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.
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Roopleen
What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
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Charles Bukowski
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.
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Shannon L. Alder
If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give–the ability to influence.
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Shannon L. Alder
More Quotes By Alan Hollinghurst
She kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.
She felt something similar, but worse in a way, about hundreds and hundreds of books she’d read, novels, biographies, occasional books, about music and art–she could remember nothing about them at all, so that it seemed rather pointless even to say that she had read...
The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism
After that they browsed for a minute or two in a semi-detached fashion. Nick found a set of Trollope which had a relatively modest and approachable look among the rest, and took down The Way We Live Now, with an armorial bookplate, the pages uncut....
