Blake Morrison quotes
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“Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.”
-- Blake MorrisonSource : "Black day for the blue pencil". www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.
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“The selective memory isn't selective enough.”
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“A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.”
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“At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.”
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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Source : "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.
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“Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.”
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