Valerie Miner quotes

“For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.”
-- Valerie Miner

Source : Valerie Miner (2014). “Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage”, p.30, Open Road Media

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“Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.”
-- Valerie Miner

Source : Valerie Miner (2014). “Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage”, p.37, Open Road Media

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“Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.”
-- Valerie Miner

Source : Valerie Miner (2014). “Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage”, p.36, Open Road Media

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“Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.”

“I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.”

“To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.”

“And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.”

“Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.”

“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”

“I can write better than anyone who can write faster,”

“When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.”