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Scott Spencer
American
Author
Born:
Sep 1
,
1945
Even
Me
People
Time
Will
Writing
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Zig Ziglar
I surely don't think ignorance is bliss. But like everything else that has survived thousands of years of human evolution, ignorance - like denial, self-delusion, and magical thinking - seems to have its uses.
Scott Spencer
Ignorance
Denial
Think
Thinking
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Evolution
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Magical
Seems
Self-Delusion
Like
Surely
Bliss
Years
Survived
Human
Human Evolution
Ignorance Is Bliss
Uses
It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility - a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place.
Scott Spencer
War
History
World
Worse
Futility
Would
Purpose
Shameful
Could
Clear
Armed
Make
Without
Said
Ultimately
The History Of
Conflicts
Place
Far
Special
Special Place
Ludicrous
Whose
Waste
Lives
World War
World War I
Resolution
Where I live, it's better to write in the morning because the night is really, really, really dark, and I do believe you'd go mad if you weren't asleep for most of it.
Scott Spencer
Morning
You
Dark
Better
Live
Believe
Mad
Write
Most
Because
Go
Were
Where
Really
Asleep
Night
That's sort of the amazing thing about writing something down and then having it printed and published - it's frozen. It's there. It's set. It's in ink. It's done. Nothing changes it.
Scott Spencer
Writing
Amazing
Nothing
Down
Changes
About
Something
Having
Sort
Printed
Amazing Thing
Done
Frozen
Then
Published
Ink
Thing
Set
Like most people, I find my own experiences - and my emotional responses to those experiences - fascinating and mysterious, even those that are a bit shaming and a little repellent.
Scott Spencer
People
Own
Bit
Those
Responses
Find
My Own
Mysterious
Emotional
Like
Most
Experiences
Little
Fascinating
Even
If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.
Scott Spencer
Me
Book
Will
Out
Something
Reader
Dull
Then
Teaching
Pulling
Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people want to have, is to keep publishing alive.
Scott Spencer
Together
Culture
People
Important
Books
Bookstore
Alive
Write
Writers
Stewards
Owners
Want
Gripping
Keep
Publishers
Publishing
Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.
Scott Spencer
Speak
Dangerous
Touch
Rather
More
Emotion
Poke
Contempt
Understand
Causes
Than
Us
Believing
It may be time for serious literary novelists to take back some of the subject matter we abandoned to hack novelists and the movies.
Scott Spencer
Time
Matter
Back
Abandoned
Some
Hack
Take
Subject
Subject Matter
May
Literary
Movies
Serious
Novelists
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