Ellen Potter quote: "One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out."

I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked bad...
ELLEN POTTER

I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. Th...
ELLEN POTTER

I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there -...
ELLEN POTTER

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But...
ELLEN POTTER

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my boo...
ELLEN POTTER

A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what ...
ELLEN POTTER

If E.B. White were writing in 2013, would there be a 'Charlotte's Web' trailer and an @S...
ELLEN POTTER

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe ther...
BEATRIX POTTER

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
BEATRIX POTTER

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
BEATRIX POTTER

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fell...
BEATRIX POTTER

Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me e...
LAUREN POTTER

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
DENNIS POTTER

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am...
ALICE POTTER

And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. M...
ALEXANDRA POTTER

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am t...
ALICE POTTER

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves t...
POTTER STEWART

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
POTTER STEWART

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian r...
POTTER STEWART

Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.
MONICA POTTER

I'm a huge anime and manga fan.
RYAN POTTER

Martial arts is a life journey. One of the things my teacher taught me a long time ago was that ever...
RYAN POTTER

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
POTTER STEWART

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
POTTER STEWART

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
POTTER STEWART

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal...
POTTER STEWART

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
POTTER STEWART

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give...
POTTER STEWART

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, bu...
POTTER STEWART

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have ...
POTTER STEWART

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands th...
POTTER STEWART

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
POTTER STEWART

Fairness is what justice really is.
POTTER STEWART

I've had tons of bullies who would call me retarded, even on my Facebook page. It's sad and ...
LAUREN POTTER

The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don'...
JONATHAN POTTER

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believ...
BEATRIX POTTER

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'
BEATRIX POTTER

The Tale of Peter Rabbit
BEATRIX POTTER

I am worn to a raveling.
BEATRIX POTTER

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
BEATRIX POTTER

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, an...
BEATRIX POTTER

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am t...
ALICE POTTER

I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intelle...
LAUREN POTTER

I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I coll...
MONICA POTTER

I pity you Juliet. You don't know what love is. You think it's Valentine's Day, and weekends in Ital...
ALEXANDRA POTTER

We've gotten great support from both Wallowa and Baker counties.
BUCK POTTER

We picked the areas that would be a challenge. The 200 miles we use are probably the toughest 200 mi...
BUCK POTTER

I highly recommend that anyone who's never seen (a sled dog race) should come see the start of it.
BUCK POTTER

All those places are accessible by car, no problem.
BUCK POTTER

It's an extremely well-read magazine. It reaches the kind of people we want to reach -- corporate en...
BOB POTTER

Most of the businesses that we've gotten to relocate have been from Los Angeles and Orange County. B...
BOB POTTER

A project like this could indeed help [nonprofits] focus on their missions as opposed to their physi...
BOB POTTER

I think the study sends exactly the wrong message to the state Legislature. It's telling them there'...
BOB POTTER

We worked with Sailors in the CDC to reinforce their training. Reagan Sailors know what they are doi...
BOB POTTER

I like to distinguish our events from other events.
CAROL POTTER

They provided great peace of mind to me.
CAROL POTTER

With all of the logistics, it was very overwhelming, but it all worked.
CAROL POTTER

I think as far as marathons go, we are the 'Rookie of the Year,'
CAROL POTTER

I knew the trail would sell the event, we just had to make the rest of it work, because the trail is...
CAROL POTTER

Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.
ELISHA POTTER

You cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an ...
DENNIS POTTER

I love acting - I love doing it. It's a lot of fun, but for the longest time, I wanted to become...
RYAN POTTER

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
DENNIS POTTER

I couldn't tell you off the top of my head exactly what we put in. There was the word 'censure' in t...
RICHARD POTTER

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad t...
DENNIS POTTER

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced...
POTTER STEWART

I'm taking better care of myself by eating healthy, exercising and doing my best to keep my stre...
MONICA POTTER

Blake was an activist and artist whose lifestyle truly reflected his values. He was the lead singer ...
DENNIS POTTER

Blake was an activist and artist whose lifestyle truly reflected his values, ... He was the lead sin...
DENNIS POTTER

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in
DENNIS POTTER

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council,...
DENNIS POTTER

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it ...
DENNIS POTTER

Juliet shook her head. The thought of eating anything made her feel nauseous. "No thanks, I'm not hu...
ALEXANDRA POTTER

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where th...
BEATRIX POTTER

Transit to anywhere made her feel insecure, and because she was not verbal, she would have tantrums....
CINDY POTTER

[Despite the dark turn of the later volumes, King is right to offer a resounding] yes ... The suspen...
HARRY POTTER

My head's so full of stuff, it really helps to have a team behind me. It's not just Donna anymore.
DONNA POTTER

We started off shaky. But after the first game, we started to get better.
STEVEN POTTER

If there's anyone who's like an arrow, who's just determined to do what he really wants to do, it's ...
CHRIS POTTER

It has made it impossible for us to make decisions because that's the only source for formulary info...
BARBARA POTTER

I've been a government contractor for years, so I'm used to bureaucracy, but this is just ridiculous...
BARBARA POTTER

It's a beautiful building, ... That would free up some of the space in town hall.
BARBARA POTTER

We really hope the town can come together for this so we can make this a first-rate facility,
BARBARA POTTER

A lot of it can depend on when we can make it,
BARBARA POTTER

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
BEATRIX POTTER

...we've told men for so long that we're equal, we can open our own doors, carry our own bags, pay o...
ALEXANDRA POTTER

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind ...
BEATRIX POTTER

I don't want to be the test case for that theory.
ANDREW POTTER

My fear would have been that if I was out of town, my insurance would have been null and void.
ANDREW POTTER

For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing anothe...
ALEXANDRA POTTER

James Cardinal Gibbons was the most influential Catholic in the U.S. around the turn of the 20th cen...
MARK POTTER

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a...
BEATRIX POTTER

On the beach the bullets were about like the mosquitoes in Minnesota.
PARKE POTTER

She basically won the game for them; she stood on her head.
JENNY POTTER

Size 8 is great! That is my new motto. I was a 14 and 6 and 12. I think it's healthy. I like to ...
MONICA POTTER

Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book...
STEPHEN POTTER

Clearly with any set of results it is possible to put a spin on, but the underlying figures don't li...
CHRIS POTTER

I guess piss on your hand is a small price to pay for relief.
GRACE POTTER

You can't make a good (movie) and win an Oscar.
MARK POTTER

My son is a lawyer, I'm going to run (my presentation) by him tonight, if he thinks it's OK, then I ...
JAMES POTTER

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
DENNIS POTTER

Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep try...
COLONEL POTTER

One small company we spoke to ended up getting their legitimate mail blocked by anti-spam software, ...
CHRIS POTTER

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
DENNIS POTTER

It's always a tough game with Woodland. They are a well-coached team. And they're so deep, they just...
JOE POTTER

If your friend says of some picture, "Yes, but what does it mean?" ask him, what his carpet means or...
STEPHEN POTTER

It's almost numbing. There's so much more to get excited about.
GRACE POTTER

We've built some fairly sophisticated tools.
DUNCAN POTTER

They're built around a simplified view of an end-user project cycle.
DUNCAN POTTER

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful,...
POTTER STEWART

I was surprised and irritated that we got a cancellation notice and it said they haven't received pa...
ANDREW POTTER

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give ris...
POTTER STEWART

Unchecked, science and monotheism both mean to vanquish nature.
CHRISTOPHER POTTER

So, who is it?" Stella is persisting, somewhat suspiciously. "What's his name?"
But if I don't ...
ALEXANDRA POTTER

I think the image I had in my head from the book -- they've captured it.
HARRY POTTER

There will be no character named Icicle.
HARRY POTTER

I meet people at book signings who whisper to me, 'We are trying the spells.' And I think: Well, don...
HARRY POTTER

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
HARRY POTTER

Each one goes deeper. You know you really get into it. It is quite a good read,
HARRY POTTER

Wizards are fun and I wish it was real,
HARRY POTTER

[W]izarding ability is inherited in a mendelian fashion, with the wizard allele (W) being recessive ...
HARRY POTTER

He's quite a softly spoken and unassertive man who changes over the course of the film, but what I l...
HARRY POTTER

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time...
HARRY POTTER

Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman ha...
BEATRIX POTTER

...she'd been in a hermetically sealed bubble. A " couple bubble" that made the rest of the male spe...
ALEXANDRA POTTER

[There's no mention of two guys helping themselves to a little gravy.] Gale and I had a very specifi...
JAMES POTTER

These days, the viruses are like guerrillas, rather than regular troops -- there are a lot of them o...
CHRIS POTTER

[According to Potter, what an operator ends up paying for a license is irrelevant to the market.] Th...
DAVID POTTER

Blake wasn't really merely my student. He was a comrade and friend.
DENNIS POTTER

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
HARRY POTTER

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel ...
POTTER STEWART

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself
DENNIS POTTER

There is a culture of anti-Mormonism on this campus.
DENNIS POTTER

is a fitting tribute to a man who left an indelible mark upon the law of this country.
JOHN POTTER

Captain Underpants.
HARRY POTTER

I didn't know what was going on. I was just very dizzy, and for about a year, I had these intermitte...
CHRIS POTTER

I am so not technically proficient at all.
MONICA POTTER

My dad taught me something as a very young child -- never presume anything. But some big stuff is go...
GRACE POTTER

I think both of these new films opted for December because they saw themselves as natural successors...
HARRY POTTER

I think we've got a young team, (but) it's not an excuse. Things didn't go our way. Their goalie sto...
JENNY POTTER

I don't think they can see the forest for the trees.
HARRY POTTER

The proximity begs the question. Why shouldn't we at least look at entering into more collaborative ...
TOM POTTER

Vegans have a way of circling every conversation back to food, much like born-again Christians have ...
WILL POTTER

I want to get across to people that I'm not retiring for a long time, but as I slow down, I want the...
DONNA POTTER

We're booked up year-to-year for Derby. There's no late-minute calling and asking for a Derby party....
DONNA POTTER

I really think of food as art, so it gives us a chance to showcase the food as well as the flowers t...
DONNA POTTER

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
BEATRIX POTTER

We wanted to be able to provide the bundling of that together into very specific vertical market sol...
DUNCAN POTTER

Our objective is to provide the reseller with that vision and blueprint to be able enter and be prof...
DUNCAN POTTER

We're trying to accommodate them as best we can, because of the objective of this group, which is to...
DEWEY POTTER

That's why we want to catch them now.
DEWEY POTTER

We weren't sure till then whether South Lake Union would be available.
DEWEY POTTER

We're going to respond to the council in writing, retrace the history of the project in that respons...
DEWEY POTTER

Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.
ALEXANDRA POTTER

It was paid for when we opened,
CHARLES POTTER

No one owns a parking spot; it's the public's right to use them, ... This law will lead to more regu...
CHARLES POTTER

It's only a couple of thousand dollars for the whole group,
CHARLES POTTER

We have one of the best areas in the state, ... Things aren't that bad in the 1st District. They're ...
CHARLES POTTER

This is a very big drive, and this is not a wealthy area,
CHARLES POTTER

There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood's kind of a throwback...
MONICA POTTER

The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven ye...
MONICA POTTER

This is a fierce bad rabbit;
look at his savage whiskers,
and his claws and his turned-u...
BEATRIX POTTER

We want everyone to know we're up, we're ready, we're doing great.
CRYSTAL POTTER

We've had a lot of people call and say are you still open even? Is the festival still going on? How'...
CRYSTAL POTTER

It's very important. It brings a lot of people in, it's the beginning of our season.
CRYSTAL POTTER

Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't kn...
MONICA POTTER

It's always been football and basketball and finally when hockey starts winning, we get a little bit...
COREY POTTER

Sometimes they don't get as many opportunities as the other two pairs do, but when the time is calle...
COREY POTTER

He really did deserve it. Without him the last couple weeks, I don't know where we'd be.
COREY POTTER

It's mind-blowing. I've waited four years for an opportunity to play in the championship and to fina...
COREY POTTER

Everybody's really prepared. Our confidence has been building, and we're just getting better as a te...
COREY POTTER

The crowd's getting into it. I've seen the wave a few times which is pretty interesting. When the cr...
COREY POTTER

It's huge. This is my fourth year and playing Michigan is definitely No. 1. I love it. The intensity...
COREY POTTER

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and a...
DENNIS POTTER

The new plane has a good market potential around the world. The new generation Hawk will give the pi...
DAVE POTTER

This is a big project. The commission has a lot of areas of interest. There's been some intelligent ...
DAVE POTTER

I think she misrepresented our position at City Council, and I think that there was not a very good ...
DAVE POTTER

Oh it is a beauty since not very many people are catching them and it is hard to get a bite out here...
DAVE POTTER

I just want to start the year off good and this is the best way to do it, catch fish and go home and...
DAVE POTTER

I've always loved movies and animation. When I was little, I was always pretending to be some al...
RYAN POTTER

While the board has independent power in that regard, it's very likely that they would be highly res...
DAVID POTTER

We feel we have an obligation to address the issues of the day.
DAVID POTTER

We're thrilled to have such a wonderful lineup. This is a great opportunity for us to give visibilit...
DAVID POTTER

Put the total sales of Palm ever and the total sales of Psion ever all together and you get a good w...
DAVID POTTER

The IT (Information Technology) industry is experiencing its worst downturn since 1985, ... Against ...
DAVID POTTER

Our objective over the next several years will be to exploit the opportunities presented by our cent...
DAVID POTTER

I think WAP is very worthy and -- I shouldn't say this -- a little bit boring, ... Where I'm coming ...
DAVID POTTER

We don't feel I should be punished for something the city should have taken care of the first time. ...
DAVID POTTER

We're going to fight it,
DAVID POTTER

I think we're going to miss some really good shows.
CLARA POTTER

It seems there is a lot less focus on money. Life there seems more relaxed.
CLARA POTTER

Our classes here at Williams are only 48 minutes long.
CLARA POTTER

The program tried to match us up well.
CLARA POTTER

All of the different senses in a normal human work adequately, but someone who has a problem process...
CINDY POTTER

Enough of the EMO Crap sometimes I just need to get my feelings out -I need to go on tour w/ Sarah S...
GRACE POTTER

We want it to be small-time. We're not going for charts here. We're just looking for people in Minne...
GRACE POTTER

We really want a label. There's no reason just for the sake of being independent to be independent.
GRACE POTTER

We love Vermont and we love the support its communities have given us. We wanted to design a tour th...
GRACE POTTER

It's a very good performance today, especially considering the first quarter was up 13%, although th...
GREG POTTER

We're still seeing some good volumes in selected shares and there's definitely a big contingent of f...
GREG POTTER

One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.

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One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.

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