Ted Solotaroff quotes
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“Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.”
-- Ted SolotaroffSource : Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”
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“Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger.”
-- Ted SolotaroffSource : Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”
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“Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket or playing one-on-one.”
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“Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.”
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“A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air force over there.”
-- Ted Solotaroff
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“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”
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“I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.”
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Source : "Adam Riess: One Cosmic Puzzle Solved, Many To Go". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. March 16, 2012.
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Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications
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“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”
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