Leonard Michaels Quotes

• Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

  Leonard Michaels

  Apples, Long, Lust

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• Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.

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  Cat, Animal, Shy

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• Mirar a un gato, como mirar las nubes o las estrellas o el océano, hace difícil creer que no hay nada milagroso en este mundo.

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  Stars, Believe, Ocean

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• Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another.

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  Sex, Mean, Romance

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• Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.

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  Littles, Clarity, Mystery

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• There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

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  Literature, Triangles, Crafts

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• There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.

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  Example, World, Accounting

  Leonard Michaels (2008). “The Collected Stories”, p.404, Macmillan

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• The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

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  Song, Singing, Stories

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• Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The words sit there on the page like coins, with their own opacity, as though they're there for their own sake. "A man goes into a phone booth, stirring coins in his palm." "Stirring" is such an obviously selected word. You can feel the writer looking for the word as he sat at the typewriter.

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  Men, Typewriters, Phones

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• I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species.

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  Especie

  Leonard Michaels (1992). “Sylvia: A Fictional Memoir”

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• Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.

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  Attitude, Stories, Crafts

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• Self-confidence can be crippling.

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  Self Confidence, Self, Crafts

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• I can only gesture at what makes a story good.

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  Teaching, Stories, Gestures

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