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Samuel Richardson

"Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others."

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Donna Grant

"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

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Donna Grant

"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."

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Donna Grant

"Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these - 'Chloe liked Olivia'. Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women."

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Donna Grant

"For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go."

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Donna Grant

"If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can."

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Donna Grant

"Then I realized the vital necessity of art. Human life, yes, you nurse people, you clean house, you market, but then comes the moment of solace and flight. i sit and write and summon other friends, other forms of life, other experiences, and the voyage and the exploration, the delving into character, the vast expanse of life's possibilities and potentialities, contemplation of future travels, of dazzling friendships, all this then makes the chores and the sacrifices beautiful because they are diverted toward some beautiful aim, they become part of the structure of a work of art."

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Donna Grant

"Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You're not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest."

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Donna Grant

"The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth."

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Donna Grant

"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."

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Donna Grant

"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"

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Samuel Richardson
"A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive."

Woman

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Samuel Richardson
"For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse."

Mind

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Samuel Richardson
"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."

Sports

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Samuel Richardson
"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."

Woman

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Samuel Richardson
"Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal."

Diversity

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Samuel Richardson
"The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master."

Creativity

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Samuel Richardson
"Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated."

Learning

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Samuel Richardson
"Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures."

Nature

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Samuel Richardson
"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."

Poor

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Samuel Richardson
"The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions."

Life

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