Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
"We like the wrong sort of girls", they wrote. "They are usually the ones worth writing about.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
-
I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
-
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
-
I like music a lot.
-
I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!
-
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.
-
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.
-
I like to argue with the radio.
-
If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.
-
I like mac and cheese.
-
You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
-
Harvey Korman was like a private tutor to me. He was such a mentor.
-
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.
-
Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.
-
Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
Ford Frick -
I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.
-
...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.
-
"We like the wrong sort of girls", they wrote. "They are usually the ones worth writing about.
