Antonya Nelson Quotes

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

Antonya Nelson

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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.

Hailey Gates
- People
- Woman
- Emotional
It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

Imogen Cunningham
- People
- Silly
- Alive
I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

Mac DeMarco
- People
- Music
- Together
The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.

Nancy Kress
- People
- Care
- Story
Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.

Isaac Hanson Hanson
- People
- Help
- Parents
People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

Gary Johnson
- People
- Good
- Change