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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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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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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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
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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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We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
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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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Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested in the picture book section anymore. It's filled with moms, strollers, and unbalanced toddlers.
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Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are finding faults in your life instead fixing the faults in their own life.
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I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
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I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.
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Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.
