Kami Garcia Quotes
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
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When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.
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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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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.
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A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
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The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
