It’s hard to predict exactly how a novel will be received, but there are always some surprises. I could not have predicted the brouhaha started by an Alaskan columnist over the fact that the University of Alaska Press published a …
Tag: Crazy as a Coot
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Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.
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“One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store.”
Patricia Marx -
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen -
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
Mark Twain -
Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes for thousands of years.
Willa Cather
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