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Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it.

Jesmyn Ward

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

Topics

Work Parenting Writing Think Parent

My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.

Maurizio Cattelan

Balance Perfect Aim Possible Open

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Robert Hughes

Painting American Landscape Sex

WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.

Matt Mullenweg

Work Back Phone Digital Complex

I think George Bush is one of the most duplicitous presidents we've ever had.

Jean O'Leary

Think Most I Think Ever Had Bush

I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.

Steve Albini

Cooking Mom Growing Up Growing Up

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. On the downside, you meet a lot of really bad people in boxing, at all stages of your career.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Time Challenge Yourself Step People

I lived in Alabama for a while during the dying days of the Continental Wrestling Federation. I lived in Montgomery and traveled all over Alabama.

Mick Foley

Smile Shoes People Face Doing Goal

Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days.

Michael Leunig

Stupid White Wrong Jokes Days Most

I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.

Lisa Loeb

Love Mind Eating Fish Chicken Meat

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

Joshua Lederberg

You Powerful Living Cells Analysis

There's this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that's only going to happen if you feel the person who's writing the book or the people in the TV show aren't holding back.

Jay Asher

Stress People Writing Book Feel You

Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.

Donald Judd

Looks Now Unusual Radical Even