Sarah Hall Having judged a few competitions, it’s clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers. – Sarah Hall Competitions Quotes Judged Quotes Laziest Quotes Novelists Quotes Short Quotes Story Quotes Writers Quotes Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it’s easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped. It’s taken me 15 years to feel I might be able to write and publish short stories, and for the assiduous checks of the industry to allow some through.
Erica Mena I was doing catalog work for a while at 14 and eventually, it was one of those days I was just moving around New York City and I got stopped by an MTV scout and I ended up doing a Jennifer Lopez look-a-like contest and I won that. – Erica Mena
Cam I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that’s not what’s driving me, so if it’s something I don’t want to do, I don’t do it. Maybe it’s stubborn, but any choices, if you don’t like them, yell at me, because it for sure was my bad. – Cam
George Brett My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn’t enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had. – George Brett
Misty Copeland I have the opportunity, which most people don’t experience nearly as much, of being in front of a mirror up to 10 hours a day. Staring at your body, you really get to know every little detail of how to make yourself look your best. – Misty Copeland
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