Ngugi wa Thiong'o Quotes

What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

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• I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

  

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• I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

  

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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.

  

  Kami Garcia
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• My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.

  

  Rani Mukerji
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• One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

  

  Rachel Field
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• Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.

  

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• It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

  

  E. B. White
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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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• As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
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• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

  

  Iris Johansen
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• The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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• I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• I love the structural part of the writing process.

  

  Kate Morton
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• As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'

  

  Kate Forsyth
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• I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.

  

  Sam Weller
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• For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

  

  Patricia Marx
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• While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
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• My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
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• What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

  

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