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Jim Woodring Quotes

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 11, 1952

Topics

Story Drawing More Tell Takes

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

John B. S. Haldane

Teen Better Boy Intelligent Bright

Mexico is becoming the northern part of Latin America, not the U.S.A.'s southern outpost.

America Mexico Southern Becoming

You want to know what I love most about myself? I'll tell you the truth: My clavicle. I think I have a nice clavicle.

Love Truth Myself Think You Nice

I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.

Story First Magazine Started Sold

I still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

Rupert Sheldrake

Day Prayer World Every Day Say Lord

I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

Love People Me Going Sing I Love

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.

Art Purpose Reality Moral Creation

No matter what you do in the offseason, you can't simulate putting spikes on and standing in the grass and being around your teammates. When you're around your teammates, you step it up a notch. It's just kind of instinctive you do that.

Step You Teammates Kind Grass Up

Christmas is never going to go away, and it's always going to be there. And there's always room for one more Christmas song, I think.

Song Think Go Christmas More Never

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

Christopher Dawson

Work Good Food Men Die You

My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture.

Work Think Page Want DNA Write

I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.

Peace Safety Place Instant Most

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