Nancy Jo Sales Quotes

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

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• When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Writing
  • School
  • Present

• The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Start

• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Success
  • Years
  • Overnight

• I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Age
  • Like
  • Years

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Writing
  • Girl
  • Understanding

• I love writing songs.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Songs

• When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Experience

• I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Different
  • Writing

• Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Science

• Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Emotional
  • Baby
  • Parenting

• I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Creative

• For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Life
  • Years
  • Insurance

• Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Kids
  • Would
  • Still

• From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Writing
  • Over
  • Wrote

• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • World
  • Children
  • Home

• Part of the reason why my folks - why any immigrant family - wants their kids to go into law or medicine is because there's the promise of reliable work. That's a powerful idea that got hammered into my head growing up: Be this thing, or else you'll starve.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • Up
  • Work
  • Family

• Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Matter

• I know that I'm very comfortable with my body. I'm not in insane shape or anything. I run, but I'm not a gym guy or anything. I wish I had washboard abs, but I don't.

  

  Brady Corbet
  • Guy
  • Wish
  • Gym

• I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• 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