Simon Mawer Quotes
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you don't need academic depth.
Simon Mawer
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Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.
Randall Kennedy
I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
Jackie Walorski
Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.
Kara Walker
8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan Perlis
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
Don McLean
I come from Beverley in East Yorkshire, and no one there would step outside their front door, or even their back door, on a Saturday night - or any other time, for that matter - unless they were dressed to the nines.
Anna Maxwell Martin
Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.
Philip Roth
What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.
Whitney Tilson
I think writing and singing go together, but I treat them as two separate careers because I write for others. If I'm writing for myself, I prefer to be with the producer. And then we can vibe out and throw ideas back and forth, and I'll basically let the producer play me a bunch of beats until I vibe with one.
Kehlani
But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
Louise Erdrich
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.
Brennan Manning
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you don't need academic depth.
Simon Mawer