Claire Messud Quotes
I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.
Claire Messud
Quotes to Explore
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
Queen Latifah
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
Utada Hikaru
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
Karen McCarthy
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
Rachel McAdams
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
Garth Ennis
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
P. J. Harvey
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
Parker Stevenson
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To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.
Ellen Willis
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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
Hans Zimmer
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I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual and accurate and as unemotional as I could, and let readers make their own judgments on what happened. And, in fact, that's how I write poetry. I'm trying to present the reader with the experience itself, not with my commentary on it. So I adopted a style that I'd hoped would let me accomplish that.
Dan Burt
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I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.
Claire Messud
