Helen Dunmore Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. – Helen Dunmore Apprenticeship Quotes Poets Quotes Tough Quotes My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. The language has got to be fully alive – I can’t bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don’t see why any reader should put up with it.
Madeline Brewer You can never just write off a person as crazy. I think that is the most inhumane thing you can do to someone without physically abusing them. – Madeline Brewer
Taiye Selasi The summer I finished my first novel ‘Ghana Must Go,’ I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou. – Taiye Selasi
David Pratt Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions! – David Pratt
Norah Vincent Books are not commodities, but the gilded age of treadmill publishing – to which Winfrey has contributed her demeaning sensibility – has made them so, thereby spawning harried plagiarists such as Stephen Ambrose and yellow journalists like David Brock. – Norah Vincent
Sargent Shriver It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is. – Sargent Shriver
Stephen Lang In the movies, I loved Errol Flynn whether he was playing a soldier or a pirate. I dug pirates. In fact, my first exposure to live performances was when my paternal grandfather took me to a D’Oyly Carte performance of ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ which impresario Sol Hurok imported from London. I loved every minute of it. – Stephen Lang
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