Mary Lee Settle quotes
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“Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.”
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“Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.”
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“Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think. We have to make our landscapes, change streets, create new turnings, rebuild or tear down, change time, and even nature, if need be.”
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“Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.”
-- Mary Lee SettleSource : Mary Lee Settle (1954). “The Love Eaters”
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“the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.”
-- Mary Lee SettleSource : Mary Lee Settle (1954). “The Love Eaters”
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“When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.”
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“Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.”
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“Don't people know that it's the hardest work in the world? Joseph Conrad said that he had loaded hundredweights of coal all day long on a ship in Amsterdam in the wintertime, and that is was nothing to the energy demanded for a day's work writing.”
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“[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.”
-- Mary Lee Settle
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Source : Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”
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