- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
- Encompass
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020