Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

I'm really just trying... to write what feels true to me. I don't think about a lofty responsibility. I think I'd be paralyzed by that. Like any of my male colleagues, I'm writing the stories that interest me in a way that feels true to me.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

• Writing
• Trying
• True
• Responsibility

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• I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Death

• With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Language
  • Grit

• Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Universe

• You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Trying
  • Help

• I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• Whether it is a super PAC or not, I have been blessed with wealth, and I think I have responsibility to use it properly.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Responsibility
  • Blessed

• True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • For Her
  • For Him
  • True Love

• 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

• Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Process

• When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'

  

  Sally Jewell
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Change
  • Responsibility

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • True
  • Funny

• Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.

  

  Becca Fitzpatrick
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Myself

• Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

  

  Jane Green
  • Writing

• The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge of an antiprohibition organization, or to any other private association, let us have an official survey and let the American people know what is going on. A complete and honest and impartial survey would reveal incredible conditions.

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • People
  • Why
  • Truth

• People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.

  

  Megan Smith
  • People
  • Bad

• My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Future

• Some women work while they are pregnant, but not me. That was a choice I had made. That's when I took a break. Men can work at whatever stage they are; whether they turn daddy, they still have their own thing. But women can't afford that because by being mothers, they have to be there for their kids.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm really just trying... to write what feels true to me. I don't think about a lofty responsibility. I think I'd be paralyzed by that. Like any of my male colleagues, I'm writing the stories that interest me in a way that feels true to me.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • True