R. K. Milholland Quotes
The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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There are no rules to writing a song.
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As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
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Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.
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To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?
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The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.
