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Quote by Rachel Joyce

“If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.”

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Rachel Joyce is a British author born in 1962. Her works are known for their profound character development and unique narrative style, which have won her a wide readership. more

“I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the flat paper, the clacketing of the typewriter or the scrape of a pen across a yellow page. And then, when the finished piece is presented, there is a small wonder on one hand, a manuscript smudged with erasures or crossed out lines on the other. The impact of the painting is immediate, the manuscript must unfold slowly through time.”

Looks Hands Artist Names Lines Half Wonder Pieces Creation Painting Paper Pages Tools Impact Various Studios Smell Finished Comparison Flats Pens Jealous Yellow Canvas Typewriters Manuscripts

Author:Jane Yolen

“I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Emotion Salt

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.”

Knows May Persons Said Sometimes Whole Speak Heard Remains Speak The Truth

Author:James A. Baldwin

“For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.”

Trying Has Beens Wanted Jobs Artist Issues Wife Century Finals Muse

Author:Anais Nin

“The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.”

Way Art Different Stories Wonder Myth Endless Novelists Different Ways Makers

Author:Muriel Spark

“I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to stay in China." The thought visibly struck him, and his head came up with sudden enthusiasm. "If I were very offensive, do you suppose they would go away now?" he asked. "Laurence, what would be particularly insulting" Hammond looked like Pandora, the box open and horrors loose upon the world. Laurence was inclined to laugh, but he stifled it out of sympathy.”

Ifs World Said Would Be Care Laughing Horror Let Me Boxes China Like Me Enthusiasm Going Away Offensive Insulting Me Alone Pandora

Author:Naomi Novik

“Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.”

Ifs Coincidence Noticing Noticing You

Author:Agatha Christie

“He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.”

Fighting Guilt Abet

Book:The Sisters Brothers

Source: The Sisters Brothers

“It is true, I thought. I am living a life.”

Book:The Sisters Brothers

Source: The Sisters Brothers

“You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible”

Trying Impossible Achieve

Author:Hermann Hesse

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