Jincy Willett quotes
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“Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.”
-- Jincy WillettSource : Jincy Willett (2009). “The Writing Class”, p.59, Macmillan
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“Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.”
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“Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett)”
-- Jincy WillettSource : Jincy Willett (2010). “Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather”, p.53, Macmillan
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“Dialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. When you're writing lines you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk to each other we never actually explain our terms. We don't say 'Sweetheart, would you pass me the sugar bowl, which we picked up for a song at that antique stall in Munich.'”
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“Arithmetic is the death of story.”
-- Jincy WillettSource : Jincy Willett (2009). “The Writing Class”, p.248, Macmillan
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“That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.”
-- Jincy WillettSource : Jincy Willett (2009). “The Writing Class”, p.76, Macmillan
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“You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some people, somewhere, enjoy having friends and trusted colleagues lunge at them in the sudden blinding light of their own living room, but I don't think most of us do.”
-- Jincy WillettSource : Jincy Willett (2009). “The Writing Class”, p.75, Macmillan
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“I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.”
Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.28, Anchor
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Source : Alice Morse Earle (2012). “Home Life in Colonial Days”, p.1, Courier Corporation
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“To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.”
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Source : Brendan Brazier (2007). “The Thrive Diet, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Plant-Based Whole Foods Way to Staying Healthy for Life”, p.37, Penguin Canada
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Source : Medea ch. 10 (1996) (translation by John Cullen)
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“The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.”
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