Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food—they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. “My brother is in prison.” Those words tasted bitter.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Edmund Morgan
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Sally Schneider
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I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.
Jerry Lewis
If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.
Brian Lumley
You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.
Beatrice Wood
I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.
Tatiana Maslany
There are two types of people in this world: Gypsy and Gadge. Which one am I? Neither. I'm a writer
Allison Mackie
I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food—they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. “My brother is in prison.” Those words tasted bitter.
Benjamin Alire Saenz