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Mary Lee Settle

Mary Lee Settle was an American writer.

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Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

Recorded, Voice, Voiceless, Wrong

the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

Disappointment, First Time, Firsts, Old, Terrible, Time

Don't people know that it's the hardest work in the world? Joseph Conrad said that he had loaded hundredweights of coal all day long on a ship in Amsterdam in the wintertime, and that is was nothing to the energy demanded for a day's work writing.

Coal, Long, People, World, Writing

[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

Authors, Fiction, Inspiration, Intelligence

When I'm working on a serious and solid book. . . I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.

Book, Detective, Dope, Good, Morning

Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think. We have to make our landscapes, change streets, create new turnings, rebuild or tear down, change time, and even nature, if need be.

Character, Down, Landscape, Tears, Thinking, Took

Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.

Choices, Fool, Joy, Terrible, Write, Writing

Having watched herself in the speckled mirror. . . she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.

Age, Flat, Hand, Hands, Mirrors

Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner

Tim Yeo

Tim Yeo

Peter Schmeichel

Peter Schmeichel

Adam Riess

Adam Riess

Horatio Nelson

Horatio Nelson

Sete Gibernau

Sete Gibernau

Stompin' Tom Connors

Stompin' Tom Connors

Patricia Clarkson

Patricia Clarkson

Heather Mitts

Heather Mitts

Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore

Tom Freston

Tom Freston

Emmeline B. Wells

Emmeline B. Wells