Dana Spiotta Quotes
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.Dana Spiotta
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
Wadada Leo Smith -
I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
Waylon Jennings -
I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
Maajid Nawaz
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
Karen Salmansohn -
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
Camille Pissarro -
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker -
I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
M. J. Rose -
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
Laura Mennell -
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
Jacob Epstein -
Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
Wang Jianlin -
It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
Fay Vincent -
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
J. M. Coetzee -
I hate negative ads in general.
Ed Rendell
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Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn't work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.
Kangana Ranaut -
Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.
Brian Tracy -
I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t.
Joanne Rowling -
I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.
Neil Patrick Harris -
I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.
Emiliano Zapata -
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
Dana Spiotta