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Quote by Amity Gaige

“To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart.”

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Amity Gaige is an American novelist born in 1972. Her works are acclaimed for their unique narrative style and profound insights into social issues. more

“As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Years Persons Has Beens Book Seems Lost Grows Know How Gone Generations Twenties Golden Thirty Survivor Thirty Years Overlooked Old Things Old Person

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.”

Ifs Doe Flower Roots Plant

Author:William Stafford

“You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.”

Lying Honest Being Honest Kitchen Banquets

Book:Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation

Source: Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation

“Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.”

Should Different Moving Common Humour Judgment Dancing Speed Common Sense Trusted Humour And Laughter

Book:The Crystal Bucket

Source: The Crystal Bucket

“If you can say it, it begins to exist.”

Ifs

Author:William Stafford

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