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 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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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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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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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
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When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
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Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.
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When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
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He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.
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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.
