Top 18 James Lasdun Quotes
#1. I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.
Anna Kendrick
#3. There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.
James Lasdun
#4. The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel, with its requirements of concentration and economy.
James Lasdun
#5. Fasting essentially slows (sometimes stops) rapidly dividing cells and triggers an 'energetic crisis' that makes cancer cells selectively vulnerable to chemo and radiation." There
Timothy Ferriss
#6. I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end.
James Lasdun
#7. The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.
Joely Richardson
#8. How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
#9. There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela
#10. Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.
James Lasdun
#11. What the Internet offers is this completely unfiltered transmission of thought to thought, of psyche to psyche, and whatever you're feeling, you can just sort of put it down and send it out there, and you can do it all in the confines of your room, without any actual contact.
James Lasdun
#12. I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
James Lasdun
#13. I am not a supporter of Israel's military policy, let alone any kind of Zionist.
James Lasdun
#14. I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety.
James Lasdun
#15. I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.
Anthony Hecht
#16. For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble. People fought duels over this. Then it fades away historically.
James Lasdun
#17. The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
James Lasdun
#18. There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.
James Lasdun
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