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“When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.”

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David Morrell

David Morrell is an American novelist known for his suspense and thriller novels. His works often blend historical and fictional elements to create engaging stories. Born on April 24, 1943, Morrell's writing career began in the 1970s. more

“I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.”

Feels Mind War States Action Young Interest Arms Scene Degrees Graduates Scholar Bells Farewell Thrillers Tolls Philip Farewell To Arms Whom The Bell Tolls Penn State

Author:David Morrell

“If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.”

Ifs Cooking Calories

Author:Michael Pollan

“A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.”

Problem Body Growing Eating Research Feds Corn Beef Health Problems

Book:The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“When chopping onions, just chop onions.”

Onions Chopping

Author:Michael Pollan

“And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old-or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.”

Giving Feels Stories Young Dies Grows Grief Doubt Dog No Doubt Galloping

Book:Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition

Source: Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition

“It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most sympathetic social setting of a workshop composed of friends. It cannot. The work improves there and often the will to work gets valuable nourishment and ideas. But, for good reasons, the poem requires of the writer not society or instruction, but a patch of profound and unbroken solitude.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Reason Use Social Solitude Profound Valuable Setting Settings Instruction Patches Sympathetic Nourishment Accommodate Workshops Unbroken

Book:A Poetry Handbook

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they fly and their huge wings alternately gliding and flapping as they maneuver through the trees. Athena's owl of wisdom and Merlin's companion, Archimedes, were screech owls surely, not this bird with the glassy gaze, restless on the bough, nothing but blood on its mind.”

Mind Hard Tree Blood Huge Bird Ears Wings Silent Flats Companion Restless Owl Athena Gliding Flapping

Book:Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

Source: Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

“I have not learned how often I Can win, can love, but choose to die.”

I Can Dies Winning

Author:W. D. Snodgrass

“Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.”

Composition

Book:Conversations with Richard Wilbur

Source: Conversations with Richard Wilbur

“Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.”

Knows Radio

Author:David Lee Roth

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