Malorie Blackman Quotes
I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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My parents could not be more Italian.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
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I would get my laugh insured! Because my laugh is very important: it's a million dollar laugh, so if my vocal chords make my laugh any different, then I'm going to have to get insured.
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Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.
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I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
