Carol Bly Quotes

• your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichés because clichés are sociable.

  Carol Bly

  Solitario, Soledad, Gente

  Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

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• It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.

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  Navigation, Theory, Difficult

  Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

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• There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all of us feel we have a book inside us. It isn't an illusion. We have got a book inside us.

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  Libro, Escritura, Animal

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• Las seis horas y cuarto diarias de televisión (la media estadounidense) que pasan los niños que no leen es lo que se denomina aprendizaje a nivel alfa. La mente no necesita crear ninguna imagen, ya que las imágenes están disponibles, así que reduce la corriente al máximo.

  Carol Bly

  Children, Reading, Cutting

  Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

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• The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.

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  Gente, Para Siempre, Secreto

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• The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

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  Principles, Literature, Devotion

  Carol Bly (1988). “Letters from the Country”, HarperCollins

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• The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

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  Together, Story Writers, Stories

  Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

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• Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel, to make money, to keep a record of our time on earth and in dream, and to leave a permanent mark. Dissension is a drive, like those drives.

  Carol Bly

  Dream, Dog, Animal

  Carol Bly (1988). “Letters from the Country”, HarperCollins

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• Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'

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  Escribir, Pensar, Dos

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• For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.

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  Writing, Story Writers, Stories

  Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

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• Un ensayo es una obra de arte literaria que tiene como mínimo una anécdota y una idea universal.

  Carol Bly

  Art, Ideas, Anecdotes

  Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

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• No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

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  Ideas, Two, Stories

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• No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.

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  Profound, Forever, Likes

  Carol Bly (2000). “My Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories”, p.51, Milkweed Editions

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• Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade.

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  Mother, Children, Dad

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• Emily sentía la euforia de los anfitriones concienzudos cuando pueden escapar temporalmente de un invitado omnipresente.

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  Feelings, Elation, Host

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• I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red hair when in real life they haven't got red hair, I've noticed they don't recognize themselves, anyway.

  Carol Bly

  Real, Hair, Self

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