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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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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There's an art to comedy.
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Everyone wants to feel that they matter.
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The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.
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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.
