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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that. ↗


— Ben Okri


#either #even #felt #i #important

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns. ↗


— Daniel Okrent


#columns #editorial #expressed #freedom #given

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. ↗


— Ben Okri


#book #bring #creative #creative act #like

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it. ↗


— Ben Okri


#came #change #collapsed #denser #got

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. ↗


— Ben Okri


#absolutely #absolutely not #best #reader #us

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up. ↗


— Mary Oliver


#could #deal #great #great deal #grew

Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again. ↗


— Michael Ondaatje


#i #idea #no idea #now #right

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. ↗


— George Orwell


#civilized #flying #highly #human #human beings

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar. ↗


— Jack Paar


#ernest hemingway #gets #gone #had #hemingway

It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration. ↗


— Bettie Page


#been #care #fans #feel #i






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