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Jesmyn Ward Quotes

By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events in the book were happening, I knew I'd probably write about them one day. I didn't want to. I'd studied fiction, and I was committed to establishing myself as a fiction writer first.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

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Time Myself Day Men Writing Book

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

Joe R. Lansdale

Work I Can Person Serious Like Too

It's important in life to celebrate any victory in life.

Jillian Michaels

Life Victory Celebrate Important Any

If you want something badly enough, and decide that you will get it, you will.

Enough You Want Will Decide Get

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

John Frankenheimer

God Think You Know Hollywood Write

Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible.

Work Experience Believe Place Opera

I've loved roller coasters since I was a kid.

Loved Kid Since Roller

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Yourself Think Slow Feeling Horrible

You can't improve what you can't measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful measurement of success in the classroom for decades. Instead of focusing on the three R's, liberals have thrown up a barrage of silly things designed to distract us all from their awful stewardship of the schools.

Success Silly You Measure Three Up

I'm not accident prone, really, but I was cutting something and sort of lost control, and it went through my big toe. There was a lot of blood and I nearly fainted, but its totally fine now.

Michelle Dockery

Control Lost Now Blood Through Big

The cover I was really excited about was 'Seventeen' magazine. To me, it was much bigger than 'Time.' 'Seventeen' was where I wanted to be.

Time Me Bigger Excited Where Than

Someone putting down $25 of his or her hard-earned money to buy my product, then doing it again because they felt the payoff was worth it. That's as good as it gets for an author.

Good Money Someone Doing Worth Down

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

William Gilmore Simms

Best Talent First Mental Absence

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