Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at last, the one that ends in joy.

Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente

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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.

Harold Ramis
- Like
- Radical
- Critic
There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.

Rachel Cusk
- Work
- Book
- Fear
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

Barry Eichengreen
- Long
- Experience
- Society
It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

Dana Brunetti
- People
- Good
- Attention
I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

Karen Duffy
- Feeling
- Eyes
- Feet
When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.

Karen Salmansohn
- Up
- Bad
- Happy