Nicola Griffith Quotes

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

Nicola Griffith

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• I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Live
  • Teach
  • Option

• I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Know
  • See
  • Possibility

• Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Confidence
  • Create
  • Greed

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Body
  • Create
  • Strange

• I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Help
  • Think
  • Create

• You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • You
  • Cutting
  • Create

• My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Pleasure
  • Create
  • Copy

• Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Create
  • Dangerous

• If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Show
  • Create
  • Expectations

• New England is demanding newer, cleaner, and more innovative energy sources - energy sources that create jobs here in New England. We should also demand newer, cleaner, and more innovative transmission methods.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Energy
  • New
  • Create

• I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Style
  • Create
  • Vintage

• We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Feel
  • Need
  • Create

• You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Guy
  • Inspiration
  • Create

• One of the hardest things is to create hope.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Hope
  • Create
  • Hardest

• I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Believe
  • Games
  • Create

• I love to dress up and create a narrative with my look.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Look
  • Create
  • Dress

• To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Idea
  • Create

• I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I had that key idea of the software developer as an artist, once I had that idea, a whole bunch of other ideas flowed from that, because I realized that I need to go study the music industry, I need to study the book publishing and Hollywood and figure out how they do things, why they do them that way, and then I need to borrow, and rearrange, the things that they're doing to fit my industry so that I can invent and create this new industry.

  

  Trip Hawkins
  • Idea
  • Developer
  • Artist

• Time can but make her beauty over again.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Beauty
  • Appreciation

• I watch a movie or a T.V. show or whatever; if it's good, I like to watch it more than once, and it's always fun to catch something you didn't see initially.

  

  Judah Friedlander
  • Movie
  • See
  • Catch

• See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality - that comes with a pruning - knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.

  

  Nathaniel Culverwell
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Morality

• It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • People
  • Company
  • Muttered

• The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

  

  Nicola Griffith
  • Create
  • Novelist
  • Self-belief