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You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one of them.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.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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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.
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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.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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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.
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I love science fiction.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'
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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.
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I've met some incredible people who I really admire.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
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I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
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I do not admire myself as a person. My successes do not override my shortcomings.
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Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.
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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
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I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.
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I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.
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Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole.
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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.
