The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.
I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red hair when in real life th… - Carol Bly
I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red hair when in real life th…
- Carol Bly
Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel, to make money, to keep a record of our … - Carol Bly
Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel, to make money, to keep a record of our …
It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore. - Carol Bly
It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.
The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforc… - Carol Bly
The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforc…
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. - Carol Bly
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all of us feel we have a book inside… - Carol Bly
There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all of us feel we have a book inside…
The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life. - Carol Bly
The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.
your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociabl… - Carol Bly
your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociabl…
No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound. - Carol Bly
No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.
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