William Zinsser Quotes
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.
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My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna go crazy, you can go crazy too.Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna go crazy, I wanna go crazy with you.Everybody sayin' 'Woah, how sweet it is. Woah.'Yeah, it felt good on my lips.
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How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
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I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.
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I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. It's a lot easier said then done because I especially like things very structured and I don't like change, but it's part of life; you've got to just deal with it.
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It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
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My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.
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And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.
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I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.
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Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.
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I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.
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I would hole up in my bedroom growing up and teach myself guitar.
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One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.
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I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out.
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?
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One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.
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Writing is thinking on paper.
