Casey Miller (Casey Geddes Miller) Quotes
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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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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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There are no rules to writing a song.
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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.
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I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines out loud, and if I get excited about something - which doesn't happen very often when I'm writing, but it's the greatest feeling when it does - I'll be out of the chair and walking around, and if I'm at home, I'll find myself two blocks from my house.
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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.
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I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.
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Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.
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Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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I do a lot of writing about my family.
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Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago. Even if I hadn't known about his hacked-off ears and his criminal history, I'd have found him powerful and compelling.
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I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
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Therefore, I believe that we both have a heavy obligation to seek earnestly the path to peace. It is in response to that obligation that I am writing directly to you.
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As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels like a race that must be run.
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'Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing; it's my whole life.
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Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
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When he asked if I would like to try second base, I thought, Hey, get me in the lineup.
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If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture.
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The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.
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I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.
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Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.
