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Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  • ... what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

  • Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.

    • Lynne Sharon Schwartz,
    • in Mickey Pearlman and Katherine Usher Henderson, A Voice of One's Own: Conversations With America's Writing Women ()

Lynne Sharon Schwartz, U.S. writer

(1939)