Todd Solondz Quotes
One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
Todd Solondz
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On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.
Natasha Trethewey
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I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.
L. E. Modesitt
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You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window.
F. Sionil Jose
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It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing.
Kacey Musgraves
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Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
Kate Morton
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
V. S. Naipaul
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Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
Leon Uris
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My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try to get as many gigs as I could. I wanted to keep writing and then eventually, in my twenties, head to a record label and hope they'd sit down and listen to my book of songs, sign me as a songwriter and maybe an artist in development.
Ella Henderson
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Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.
Ann Voskamp
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I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction.
Billy Collins
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I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.
Ellen Gilchrist
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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
Mary Oliver
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I'm against the ways of the world where people feel like they need to always make things too perfect.
Colbie Caillat
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You play for the team, you don't play for the fans.
Andruw Jones
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Any woman's right to self-identify is a personal freedom I fight for, and those women who claim trans women are not women are perpetuators of gender-based oppression, and all feminists should be upset and moved to action against this.
Janet Mock
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Well, when Kathy Kennedy, who is the president of Lucasfilm, came to me to ask if I'd be interested in working on this "Star Wars" movie, we talked about a young woman at the center of the story from the outset. And it was something that was always an important part of this movie.
J. J. Abrams
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Once you pay attention to your physical sensations, the next step is to label them, as in “When I feel anxious, I feel a crushing sensation in my chest.
Bessel van der Kolk
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One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
Todd Solondz
