Annie Proulx Quotes

What I Find To Be Very Bad Advice Is The Snappy Little Sentence, 'Write What You Know.' It Is The Most Tiresome And Stupid Advice That Could Possibly Be Given. If We Write Simply About What We Know We Never Grow. We Don't Develop Any Facility For Languages, Or An Interest In Others, Or A Desire To Travel And Explore And Face Experience Head-on. We Just Coil Tighter And Tighter Into Our Boring Little Selves. What One Should Write About Is What Interests One.

Related Authors

• Artur Schnabel
• Casey Wilson
• Deborah Layton
• Jason Stevenson
• Joan Biskupic
• Lawrence Hsieh
• Midhat Gazale
• Papa Roach
• Reginald De Koven
• Spencer Haywood
• Theodor Schwenk
• Thomas Calhoun Walker

Related Topics

• Quotes About Life Make You Think

  Do you think my life has meaning? Did I make the right choices? — Paul Kalanithi

• Quotes About Occupation

  Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well. — Maria Edgeworth

• Edge Of Glory Quotes

  He enjoyed dancing with a fair stranger, enjoyed the vacuous, chaste talk, through which you listen closely to that bewitching, vague something going on inside you and inside her, which — Vladimir Nabokov

• Life Isn't Fair Sometimes Quotes

  Life is messy and the universe has an awful lot of people to keep track of. Sometimes things get screwed up. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Sometimes good — Amy Zhang

• Sultan Of Brunei Quotes

  To all my friends in Los Angeles: the Sultan of Brunei, owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has signed legislation calling for gay people to be stoned to death. — Cleve Jones