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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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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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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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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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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Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.
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Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints.
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I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.
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Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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"We like the wrong sort of girls", they wrote. "They are usually the ones worth writing about.
