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Jane Green Quotes

I wanted to write stories I wanted to read, that I and my friends related to.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: May 31, 1968

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Friends Write Read Stories Wanted

I think each time you start a story or novel or whatever, you are absolutely at the bottom of the ladder all over again. It doesn't matter what you've done before.

Time Start Story Think You Ladder

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature Progress Inaction Development

Every single day, entrepreneurship has highs and lows, and you need to feel like you have a community around you. That is insanely important - to have a community of people around you lifting you up and who really know you.

Community Day People Feel You Know

If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

Enough Moments You Go Where Going

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Shoes Finance Small Stumble Us Trip

If there's a danger at Facebook, it's the assumption that Facebook has us all locked in and we aren't going to go elsewhere.

Go Facebook Danger Us Going Locked

Unions, by and large, are democratic organizations with freely chosen leaders and policies determined by the membership. They concern themselves with individual dignity not only in their aims but in their method. We have no better example of what is worthy of emulation abroad than the workings of a good union.

Good Better Dignity Unions Worthy

I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.

Myself Sympathy Ordinary Make Many

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

Mother Sister Saying Mouth She Out

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

Art Me Mystery Way Function

My worst work happens when I get obedient.

Michael Wincott

Work Worst Get Happens Obedient

I didn't do it for the money. I know a lot of people say that, but if I'd wanted to be rich, I'd have stayed working as a city lawyer. I gave that up eight years ago and took a massive drop in salary, and I didn't mind because I was doing what I loved. There's plenty of material for the other five books.

Money People City Mind Lawyer Loved

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