Sigrid Nunez Quotes
You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one of them. But it had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't admire Susan's own fiction.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Pat Barker
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As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.
Vicente Fox
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One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.
Hanya Yanagihara
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
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I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.
Maggie Q
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I love science fiction.
Pam Grier
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
Ian Rankin
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
E. L. Doctorow
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I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'
Dalia Mogahed
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I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
Jack Kilmer
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I've met some incredible people who I really admire.
Taron Egerton
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
Veronica Roth
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
J. M. Coetzee
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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
Quentin Tarantino
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I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.
Narada Michael Walden
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
N. K. Jemisin
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I do not admire myself as a person. My successes do not override my shortcomings.
B. F. Skinner
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I die wearing a bootie for three hours. I'm like, get these off of me!
Paloma Elsesser
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You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.
Donna Karan
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Sachin is the greatest role model I've ever met.
Gary Kirsten
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Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.
Richard Roeper
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It is nothing to celebrate that one is gay. Us heterosexuals have never celebrated our orientation. This cheering of gays is disruptive to our society. You can almost get the impression that it is better to be homosexual than heterosexual. I think this is very sad.
Carl I. Hagen
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You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one of them. But it had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't admire Susan's own fiction.
Sigrid Nunez