Hilma Wolitzer quotes
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“Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.”
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“The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.”
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“There must be a balance of honesty and charity in the workshop. Everyone must be aware of a fellow human being behind the work being discussed, and criticism has to be useful, not just derogatory or laudatory.”
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“Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.”
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“My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I loved clothes. And that's saying something. The feel of them and the smell of them. A bookshop was like like an Aladdin's Cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look.”
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“hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.”
-- Hilma WolitzerSource : Hilma Wolitzer (2013). “Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.14, Open Road Media
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“Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound.”
-- Hilma WolitzerSource : Hilma Wolitzer (2013). “In the Palomar Arms: A Novel”, p.8, Open Road Media
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“Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about the suffering and losses incurred during the Holocaust. The grim statistics that Ms. Grossmann presents in her carefully researched and well-organized book carry evidence of the terrible truth. But the testimony of the survivors she quotes contains the final, ineradicable facts of history.”
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“The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg’s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity.”
-- Hilma Wolitzer
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“Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.”
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“Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)”
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Source : Aimee Semple McPherson (2009). “This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson”, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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“Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.”
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.”
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