Marge Piercy Quotes

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Marge Piercy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 31, 1936

Topics

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English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

Jim Crace

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I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

Jo Nesbo

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Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.

John Engler

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The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.

Meir Soloveichik

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And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

Robert Grosseteste

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I understand; I can see it from two ways: people trying to get that money and leave the game early and people trying to set history or whatever.

Max Holloway

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Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses.

Mia Love

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Although the rugby league fraternity probably don't like it, the rugby union fraternity probably doesn't like it, it's cool for sportsmen, for young kids coming up, to know that there's not just that one door.

Sonny Bill Williams

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I don't think there's one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner.

Ruth Reichl

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As for radio and movies, I like the movies better, although the work is much harder. The cinema has microphone technique, staging, and glamour all wrapped up into one.

Rudy Vallee

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I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Mary Pope Osborne

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Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Douglas Horton

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