Geraldine Brooks Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

Geraldine Brooks quotes and sayings page 6 (deceased journalist born on Oct 29, 1925). These are the last 4 out of 54 quotes we have for her.

“Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?'”

“The dirty little secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is showing up. If you can find a way to get there, the story, the reporting, it's the easiest you'll ever do. 'Cause the drama's everywhere.”

“There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.”

“Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade.”