Emily Gould Quotes
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
Emily Gould
Quotes to Explore
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
Irwin Shaw
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
Barry McGee
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
Ian Somerhalder
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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
Tabrett Bethell
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
J. M. Coetzee
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
Bryan Adams
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One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
Archimedes
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Not enough people in this world are happy.
Karen Carpenter
The Carpenters
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Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be
Creflo A. Dollar
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Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
Emily Gould
