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Monday, 6 August 2012

Meave Binchy quote about ducks and women and how it should be

In my stories, the ugly ducklings don't grow up to be beautiful swans, they grow up to be confident ducks!

Quotes

…all we have, finally, (is) the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places so that they best say what they are meant to say

Raymond Craver

It is well known that a woman can be in two places at once, at her desk and her washing machine...
Sylvia Townsend Warner

Far better to write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
Katherine Mansfield

A writer should know how much change a character has in his pocket.
James Joyce

I write because I don't know what to think until I read what I say.
Flannery O'Connor

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickenson

"A word after a word after a word is power" - Margaret Atwood

Monday, 6 August 2012

Meave Binchy quote about ducks and women and how it should be