Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Like
  • Just

• The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Charm

• My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Character
  • Job
  • End

• Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Art
  • You

• I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Home
  • Girl
  • Like

• America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • America
  • Land

• Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Energy
  • Oil
  • Electricity

• Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Light
  • End
  • Rejection

• Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Fool

• Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame’s ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • High
  • Honor
  • Sky

• For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Science
  • Light
  • Wisdom

• What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Universe

• Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Romantic

• I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Life
  • Rest

• The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a novel are put there by the reader. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. That's how literature functions.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Literature
  • Author

• I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Jesus
  • Buddha

• Any horse can win on any given day.

  

  Angel Cordero, Jr.
  • Win
  • Horse
  • Given Day

• In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Me
  • Financial
  • Fate

• If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • World
  • God
  • Perfect

• I do not comment on politics, but I see computerization of the election process as good for stability and social harmony.

  

  Andrew Tan
  • Good

• A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • Heart
  • Book