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Category: Quotes

Quotes on reading and writing and passages from books I love

Posted on August 29, 2012February 11, 2014 by Annabel Smith

Fine artistic things seem always to be done in the face of difficulties, and the rocky soil, which seems to give the finest…

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Posted on August 28, 2012February 11, 2014 by Annabel Smith

Many years ago, he had taken the passion he felt for Susan and folded it in half, so he no longer had a…

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Posted on May 28, 2012February 11, 2014 by Annabel Smith

When we read, we start at the beginning and continue until we reach the end. When we write, we start in the middle…

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Posted on May 22, 2012February 11, 2014 by Annabel Smith

For a writer, there’s no such thing as an exemplary life. It’s a fact that certain writers do good work at the bottom…

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Posted on May 1, 2012February 11, 2014 by Annabel Smith

We are two dry stretches of country. We carry the marks of millions of years, from the volcanoes, the ice ages, droughts, fires,…

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Posted on April 4, 2012February 11, 2014 by Annabel Smith

…I teach…uncontainment…what it is like to build a story in your body from the words to the sentences, to the paragraphs, to the…

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Posted on March 28, 2012February 11, 2014 by Annabel Smith

Though we can condemn … the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books, we are powerless when it comes to…

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Posted on March 8, 2012January 31, 2014 by Annabel Smith

Everyone is related to the world through something. I through words… before I stopped writing, words had become treacherous and untrustworthy to me….

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Posted on February 21, 2012January 31, 2014 by Annabel Smith

The life that produces writing can’t be written about. It is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below…

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Posted on February 14, 2012January 31, 2014 by Annabel Smith

The question any novel is trying to answer is, Is life worth living? That’s a major question, a huge question, but the best…

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