Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

"I think I look a little like a pumpkin,” whispered September, secretly delighted. “I’m all green and orange.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • War
  • Media

• I feel like we all have our skeletons.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Like
  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Up
  • Friends
  • True

• In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Beautiful
  • Dreams
  • Green

• I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Me

• Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Home
  • Day
  • Wife

• There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Living
  • Europe
  • Australia

• I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Believe
  • Home
  • Square

• I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Star
  • Theatre

• 'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • True

• I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Live
  • Walking
  • Hill

• Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Lead
  • Street
  • Warm

• I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Courage
  • Ambition

• Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Feeling
  • Mean
  • Angry

• Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Place
  • Many
  • Jackets

• Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Write

• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Powerful
  • Chance
  • Pool

• I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Want
  • Flying
  • Talk

• With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • You
  • Rejection
  • Take

• Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Men
  • History
  • Growing

• If the U.S. turns away from the international system, then we will simply have to look after it ourselves. Together, we can demonstrate that, even in the Trump era, free trade is not a thing of the past.

  

  Cecilia Malmstrom
  • Together
  • Past
  • Trade

• I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Guy
  • Hair
  • Thought

• Green Arrow was a very complicated character to take on because he has archaic weaponry. Catwoman, I think is more of a simple archetype to grasp, so it will be about nuance. But I think you need three or four issues before you say, 'Ah ha! Now I really know how to write this character!' You're carrying them around with you.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Character
  • Simple
  • Green

• "I think I look a little like a pumpkin,” whispered September, secretly delighted. “I’m all green and orange.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Look
  • Green
  • September