Lynn Freed Quotes

• Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.

  Lynn Freed

  Feet, Imagination, Hot

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• What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't know any other way to keep the teeth sharp and the spirit alive.

  Lynn Freed

  Writing, Teeth, Alive

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• I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

  Lynn Freed

  Children, Earth, Matter

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• Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of having listened to Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus. Who could ask for more?

  Lynn Freed

  Wise, Heart, Leaving Me

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