Katrina Onstad Quotes

For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.

Katrina Onstad

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• The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Thing

• When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Doing

• I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Writing
  • Talk
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• To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.

  

  Becca Fitzpatrick
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Myself

• I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Book

• Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Reading

• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Great
  • Children
  • Relationship

• Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Writing
  • Single
  • Feedback

• The goal when you get into a relationship is not to be out of the relationship. It's to try to stay in the relationship. But if it doesn't work, you can't force those things.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Goal

• There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Relationship

• I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Control

• I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Years

• When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Poetry

• I think both sides China and United States should work hard to build a new type of relationship between big powers. The two sides should cooperate with each other for a win-win result in order to benefit people from the two countries and the world.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from different countries, Venezuela, from Brazil, and they all played soccer, and I was on the soccer team, and I developed great relationships with them.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • Different
  • School

• We come from that school where we don't believe we're different from you, and it's insulting to me on some kind of weird level that musicians are put on a pedestal.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • Believe
  • Different
  • School

• The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Energy
  • Body
  • Results

• Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which delude or afflict us are called 'delusions.'

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Confused
  • Karma

• Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.

  

  Katrina Onstad
  • Writing
  • Relationship
  • Pleasure