Eliza

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Eliza’s Quotes

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
― E.M. Forster

tags: advice, e-m-forster, essay, fiction, writing

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“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

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“...Novels--which, after all, are training grounds for responding to the world, imaginative sanctuaries in which to hone and test our ethical judgments and choices.”
― William Deresiewicz, A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter

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“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room With A View

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“All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.”
― John Cheever

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Eliza’s Groups

Contemporary British Literary Fiction — 169 members — last activity Oct 10, 2017 09:47AM
A place to discuss the likes of Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan and Zadie Smith. I'll post reviews of some books to get things started, and ...more

Booker List — 146 members — last activity May 26, 2018 07:54PM
This club discusses and reviews the long and the short lists of the Man Booker Prize and for the forth coming years will nominate books that should ma ...more

Literary Prizes — 267 members — last activity Jul 08, 2012 07:00AM
A place to discuss the Booker, the Pulitzer, the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Newbery, and/or any other literary awards.

Discussing the Orange Prize — 6 members — last activity Jul 29, 2012 04:04AM
A forum to discuss the books nominated for the Orange Prize, both past and present.

The Penguin Press — 1454 members — last activity Mar 28, 2017 12:09PM
Welcome to our Goodreads Group for The Penguin Press! We like to say that we publish "ideas that matter and storytelling that lasts," and some of our ...more

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