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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

  

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

  

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

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Idea
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• We could not have asked for a more inspirational partner to create an equally inspirational and entertaining DVD series.

  

  Andrew Heyward
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• I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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  • Works
  • Limitations

• The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • Create
  • Exist

• You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Experience
  • Create
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• There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Feelings

• So much magic lies beyond our fears.

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Magic
  • Lying

• It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.

  

  Carlos Tevez
  • Wish
  • Regret
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• 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