Don Murray quotes
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“I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.”
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“People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.”
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“My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.”
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“The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.”
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“Process can not be inferred from product any more than a pig can be inferred from a sausage.”
-- Don MurraySource : Don Murray (1982). “Learning by Teaching: Selected Articles on Writing and Teaching”, Heinemann Educational Books
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.7, Macmillan
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“Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.”
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“Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.”
Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.59, Faber & Faber
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Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
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