Lena Andersson Quotes

I need a distance to my characters when I write.

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• I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Distance
  • New York
  • Farm

• The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Feelings
  • Ability
  • Distance

• If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Me
  • Myself

• One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Distance
  • Qualities
  • Close

• My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Distance

• A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Long
  • Distance
  • Busy

• A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Work
  • Book
  • Myself

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Distance

• One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Long
  • Man
  • Past

• Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • Truth
  • Earth
  • Problem

• In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Good
  • Long
  • Help

• The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Literature
  • Distance
  • View

• I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Think
  • Moments
  • Distance

• I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight distance. It means my characters can act in unexpected ways on two axes: physical and mental. It isn't just, 'I thought this and then I did this,' which is the technique of the modern psychological novel.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Thought
  • See
  • Distance

• The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Look
  • Difficult
  • Distance

• I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Running
  • Best

• I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Game

• I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Up
  • Country
  • Imagination

• Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Time
  • Me
  • Dark

• The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Words
  • Perspective

• In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Distance

• I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food—they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. “My brother is in prison.” Those words tasted bitter.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Words
  • Food
  • Prison

• We've gotten better as a live band. The songs have been allowed to grow with our audience. I don't think I would have done it any other way.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Live
  • Done
  • Band

• I need a distance to my characters when I write.

  

  Lena Andersson
  • Distance