When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
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I published in small literary magazines for probabl... L. E. MODESITT, JR. I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged t... L. E. MODESITT, JR. I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. E. E. CUMMINGS To destroy is always the first step in any creation. E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress. E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive. E. E. CUMMINGS I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more... E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. E. E. CUMMINGS I imagine that yes is the only living thing. E. E. CUMMINGS At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. E. E. CUMMINGS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. E. E. CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. E. E. CUMMINGS Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child. E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything. E. E. CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When
the judgement day comes, God w... E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world. E. E. EDDISON America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer... E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive. E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th... E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi... E E CUMMINGS Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. E. E. CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E. E. CUMMINGS Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. E. E. CUMMINGS America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer... E. E. CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ... E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e... E. E. CUMMINGS A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ... E. E. CUMMINGS I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu... E. E. CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. E. E. CUMMINGS A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man. E. E. CUMMINGS Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. E. E. CUMMINGS Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its... E. E. JENKINS To destroy is always the first step in any creation. E E CUMMINGS