Quotes by Theodora Goss

Theodora Goss

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

Attention

Criticism

Giving

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

Art

Museums

Reading

Believe in the importance of your art.

Art

Believe

Importance

Delia Sherman once told me that you never learn to write a story. You only learn to write the story you are currently writing. You have to learn how to write the next story all over again. And she’s absolutely right.

Stories

Writing

I loved writing something I’d never written before, and I wanted to write not just about “true love” but also a human relationship.

Humans

Wanted

Writing

I loved writing something people usually have – miscommunication, for example. Now that I’ve written a romance, I’m sure I’ll write more: it’s fascinating to put people together and see what happens, how they fall in love and what that means in their lives.

Falling In Love

Mean

Writing

I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] – as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life!

Academic Life

Anxiety

Wells

I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don’t believe it’s important, you won’t put in the work you need to.

Believe

Important

Needs

I talked on my blog recently about “uncommon sense.” Common sense is called “common” because it reflects cultural consensus. It’s common sense to get a good job and save for retirement. But I think we all also have an “uncommon sense,” an individual voice that tells us what we’re meant to do.

Jobs

Retirement

Thinking

I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.

Magic

Purpose

Thinking

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Academic Life

Anxiety

Appeals

Art

Attention

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Challenges

Common Sense

Courses

Criticism

Dancer

Daughter

Degrees

Design

Desire

Differences

Done

Drs

Effort

Falling In Love

Girl

Giving

Humans

Importance

Important

Innovative

Jobs

Long

Looks

Mad

Magic

Mean

Museums

Natural

Needs

Nice

People

Political

Purpose

Quirks

Reading

Retirement

Romance

Significant

Sleep

Sometimes

Stories

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Quotes by Theodora Goss

Theodora Goss

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

Believe in the importance of your art.

Delia Sherman once told me that you never learn to write a story. You only learn to write the story you are currently writing. You have to learn how to write the next story all over again. And she’s absolutely right.

I loved writing something I’d never written before, and I wanted to write not just about “true love” but also a human relationship.

I loved writing something people usually have – miscommunication, for example. Now that I’ve written a romance, I’m sure I’ll write more: it’s fascinating to put people together and see what happens, how they fall in love and what that means in their lives.

I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] – as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life!

I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don’t believe it’s important, you won’t put in the work you need to.

I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.

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