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.
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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.
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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.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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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.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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.
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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.
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
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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.
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Computers make me totally blank out.
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I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.
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I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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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.
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You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.
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To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.
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I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
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As daughters of God we are each unique and different in our circumstances and experiences. And yet our part matters—because we matter.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.
