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WorstProf Contest : Famous Quotations about Teaching and Teachers
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| --Eudora Welty Asking for advice on how to write love scenes: |
A lady had decided she'd write a novel and got along fine till she came to the love scene."So," she told my friend, "I thought, there's William Faulkner, sitting right up there in Oxford. Why not send it to William Faulkner and ask him?" So she sent it to him, and time went by, and she didn't ever hear from him, and so she called him up. Because there he was. She said, "Mr. Faulkner, did you ever get that love scene I sent you?" He said yes, he had got it. And she said, "Well, what did you think of it?" And he said, "Well, honey, it's not the way I'd do it--but you go right ahead." Now, wasn't that gentle of him? | |
| --John Mortimer. On Writing Novels |
"I found writing novels rather a lonely business.You very rarely actually catch anyone reading them. I've heard of a novelist who got onto the tube at Piccadilly Circus for the purpose of getting out at Green Park, a distance of one stop.And as he got onto the tube he found himself sitting next to a girl who was in fact reading one of his novels. and he knew that two hundred pages further on there was a joke. So he sat on till Cockfosters, the end of the line, in the faint hope of hearing a laugh which never came." | |
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