Karen Bender Quotes
Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.
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You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
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I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
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If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.
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Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.
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I'm not hip-hop. I'm Tyler.
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Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.
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There were always kids better than me. Because of that, I had to learn to be a role player and do my part.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
