Dana Spiotta Quotes
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.Dana Spiotta
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
Wadada Leo Smith -
I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
Waylon Jennings -
I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
Maajid Nawaz
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
Karen Salmansohn -
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
Camille Pissarro -
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker -
I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
M. J. Rose -
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
Laura Mennell -
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
Jacob Epstein -
Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
Wang Jianlin -
It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
Fay Vincent -
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
J. M. Coetzee -
I hate negative ads in general.
Ed Rendell
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
Ramana Maharshi -
I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.
Danielle Steel -
The same way we can send and receive an email with anyone, anywhere, for free, or we can share a photo with anyone instantly for free, money will become these digital tokens, and we'll be able to do that with money.
Jeremy Allaire -
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
Samuel Lover -
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
Dana Spiotta