Nikki Grimes Quotes
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
Irving Penn
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
Dan Chaon
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I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
Adam Faith
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
Patricia Reilly Giff
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But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
Hari Kunzru
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
B. F. Skinner
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Everything I make starts very personally.
Baz Luhrmann
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
Rachel Nichols
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When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
Tea Obreht
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.
Barbara Mertz
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Computers make me totally blank out.
Dalai Lama
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I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.
Waris Ahluwalia
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I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
Ina Garten
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
Taylor Swift
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I found, after the experience of making 'Shaun Of The Dead' and then returning to the blank page - because 'Shaun Of The Dead' was the first screenplay I ever wrote properly - the experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful.
Edgar Wright
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You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.
Baba Kalyani
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My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.
Marianne Williamson
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I want to be with you till my last page.
A.R. Asher
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He’d started caring more about becoming the kind of person who could make a change than he cared about the change itself.
Courtney Milan
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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
Oscar Wilde
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There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.
Nikki Grimes