Top 30 Jincy Willett Quotes
#1. I love you," Kenneth said, with terrible dispassion, "but I would not burn the Library of Alexandria for you"; and Anita, drily sobbing, cried, "You son of a bitch.
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#2. Ultimately, nobody is predictable, least of all to himself ... there wouldn't be any point in writing fiction otherwise.
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#4. That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.
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#5. We are so lonely here, with only our loved ones for company. We kill, maim, insult our loved ones, or dream of doing so, to keep from going mad. And then disaster strikes. God, how we love disaster.
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#6. I spent my next hour reshelving, and the next thirty minutes straightening out the Mc's and Mac's. Nobody on God's earth understands the Mc/Mac principle anymore. In order to do that, you have to be willing to think about something other than your genitals for a full minute.
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#8. Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had to push my own books, I'd stop writing. I hate the conflation of marketing and writing.
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#9. I thought, you see, that there must be some connection between money and memorable experience; between rare wine and rare intelligence. In short, I was a romantic idiot.
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#10. Carla was wearing a No Fear sweatshirt. You are too old, Amy wanted to tell her, for legible clothing.
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#11. Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.
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#12. (T)here are worse things than falling on your face right out of college ... Like instant, unearned success. Like getting your first novel accepted by the first publisher you send it to. Like getting your first rejection slip at the age of thirty-five.
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#13. Well, she had her own sorry self, her own story, the snowflake of her life, but even as a child she had been unimpressed by the breathless adult observation that no two of these were exactly alike. In the first place, she had thought, how does anybody know that? And in the second place, so what?
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#14. Only in art were there cliches; never in nature. There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with surprise inside.
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#15. (N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.
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#17. Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.
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#18. The future, vague and sad, did not frighten me half as much as knowing that it was not carved in stone.
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#19. So here is where I am so far, and this is all I know: the world is a big sardine can, and some of us are too agreeable for words. Most of us, really.
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#20. Not just the absence of sound, but positive, warm, burnished silence.
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#21. There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with a surprise inside.
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#22. According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.
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#23. Just start the sentence ... and see what happens. This is how we write.
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#24. When it comes to books, I am a sensuous woman.
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#26. It was morning, and nothing frightened Amy in the morning, because her will to live never kicked in until after lunch.
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#27. Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go to common ground, where for a time we are not alone.
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#28. She pretended to find dust ruffles feminine and cozy, but really they were just flimsy barriers beyond which lurked the malign viscosity under her bed.
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#29. (T)hey were at ease with each other, which was essential to a productive workshop.
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#30. What was the value, really, of an alibi between lovers, friends, or family members? Idea for greeting card: 'Will You Be My Alibi?
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