Jane Leavy Quotes
News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the stories I've so far written have needed it. 'Empire State,' 'Seven Wonders' and 'The Age Atomic' are all very place-centric, where the setting itself is almost a character. But there is a universality to story that isn't just limited to science fiction.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
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Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
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Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
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People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
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Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
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The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.
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As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.
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News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.
