Susanna Kearsley Quotes
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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I've played sports and been active my whole life.
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Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
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Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
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I'm currently working on a romantic comedy between me and Philip Seymour Hoffman. So my next step is to write something so mind-blowingly spectacular that he has no other choice but to agree to do it! Wish me luck.
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I have gone back to some things that can't possibly be done: water, with weeds waving at the bottom. It is a wonderful sight, but it drives one to crazy to try to paint it. But that is the kind of thing I am always a tackling.
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I like the old-school muscle cars.
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Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.
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Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.
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Country music has always sort of been country music.
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Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.
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The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.
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One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
