Lynn Coady Quotes
Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.
Lynn Coady
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
Nargis Fakhri
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
Gary Johnson
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
Edmund White
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In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.
Rachel Cusk
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
Nadia Comaneci
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Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
Jeanette Winterson
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It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.
Charles Osgood
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When you're an adult, when times are good, entire years go by in what feels like the space of one season. But the worst trick time plays on you is just how slowly the worst times in your life take you to live through.
Artie Lange
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Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.
P. D. James
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The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
Athol Fugard
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Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.
Lynn Coady