Jessamyn West Quotes
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Jessamyn West
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
J. August Richards
I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
Gaby Hoffmann
One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
Barbara Jordan
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
Nancy Gibbs
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
Quentin Crisp
I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
Malorie Blackman
Let's just say I've learned a lot and seen things differently than any other average high school kid.
Jalen Brunson
I feel like I found a sound that is unique to country music, in my own lane.
Chris Lane
I do have personal relationships with a lot of "fans," in quotations. I answer all my mail, I get emails from fans, and I try to answer them all. That's important to me, but occasionally there's the thing where people basically ask me to write book reports for them, and I don't have that kind of time. I feel like there's a certain sexism involved, like because I'm a woman I'm supposed to constantly be like giving to everybody.
Kathleen Hanna
Bikini Kill
It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.
Karl Pearson
Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.
I. L. Peretz
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Jessamyn West
