Nancy Kress Quotes
Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
Quotes to Explore
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
