Victor LaValle Quotes

I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

Victor LaValle

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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

Nancy Gibbs
- Children
- Technology
- Car
I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
- Drama
- Artists
- Dramatic
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

J. B. Smoove
- Work
- Great
- Thinking
I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.

J. Cole
- People
- Music
- Giving
I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

Lady Gaga
- Myself
- Like
- See
I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

Yogi Berra
- France
- Southern
- Invasion