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Quote by Bruce Coville

“The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.”

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Bruce Coville is an American children's literature author, born on May 16, 1950. His works, themed around fantasy and adventure, are highly favored by young readers. more

“A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English with rare luminosity. One feels echoes of Oppen's succinct tenderness in the depiction of the numerous characters of this work. Without other, there is no self. And that other is the stranger who must be loved. Concordance is, after all, a wedding poem-leaves and pages in search of a certain passage toward harmony.”

Feels Humans Self Character Spirit Certain Pages Harmony Stranger Passages Fragile Tenderness Palestinian Echoes Epic Palestine Human Spirit Philip Depiction Indomitable Epic Poems

Author:Fady Joudah

“Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution.”

World Heart Body America Middle Revolution East Strikes Damage Reaching Latin Middle East Asia Imperialism Eastern Latin America Arteries

Author:Ghassan Kanafani

“The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.”

Causes Mass Eras Revolutionary Palestinian Oppressed

Author:Ghassan Kanafani

“Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.”

World Humans Causes Human Beings One Thing This World Commitment Conviction Stolen Emanate

Author:Ghassan Kanafani

“The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it.”

Ifs Made Talent Ready Unique Available

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“Do not believe that man grows. No: he is born suddenly-a word, in a moment, penetrates his heart to a new throb. One scene can hurl him down from the ceiling of childhood on to the ruggedness of the road.”

Men Believe Heart Moments Grows Born Childhood Scene Penetrate Ceilings

Author:Ghassan Kanafani

“The fish, Even in the fisherman's net, Still carries, The smell of the sea.”

Stills Sea Fishes Smell Carrie Fisherman

Author:Mourid Barghouti

“Behind me the world, ahead of me my world.”

World Behinds

Book:I Saw Ramallah

Source: I Saw Ramallah

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