“I chose this. I’m not going to sit around and say, poor me, because I chose to be a writer and what that means is, in Canada, as a writer, I’m not going to make a living from the sales of my books” — Finding her balance; the joy and sorrow of Sheree Fitch | New Brunswick Beacon
“Having a reputation for clean, instruction-following manuscripts is the publishing equivalent of having a reputation for being great in bed.” — Guest Post: 9 Ways to Piss Off an Editor, by James L. Sutter » Inkpunks
“… the world can be a bewildering place, and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps.” — Rohinton Mistry, “Squatter” (via hateshiploveship)
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“She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word “escape” used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about.”
—from “Free Radicals,” TOO MUCH HAPPINESS, by Alice Munro
(Photo: Alice Munro and fellow author Jim Scott were together to celebrate the Governor General’s award. Scott taught Creative Writing at Western while Miss Munro was a student.)
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“I’m a ubiquitous reader. I am the person who will read the airline magazine on the plane if there is nothing else to read. I’m interested in it all.” — Margaret Atwood on Sci-Fi, Religion, and Her Love of ‘Blade Runner’ - Alyssa Rosenberg - Entertainment - The Atlantic