Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
"We like the wrong sort of girls", they wrote. "They are usually the ones worth writing about.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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I like music a lot.
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I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!
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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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Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.
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I like to argue with the radio.
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I like mac and cheese.
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
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Harvey Korman was like a private tutor to me. He was such a mentor.
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I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.
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I'll get in the face of anyone I think is wrong.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.
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When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.
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I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.
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Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.
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I feel like nobody can stop me off the dribble. At crunch time, we're looking for somebody to score and I definitely want to be the guy who has the ball in his hands.
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"We like the wrong sort of girls", they wrote. "They are usually the ones worth writing about.
