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Sophie Kinsella Quotes

Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth, but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.

Sophie Kinsella

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 12, 1969

Topics

Life Good You Want Beyond Witty

When I show up in New York, and I look at the skyline, it's like showing up in a mountain range. My gaze goes toward the most impressive-looking climb. It's always gone to the top of the World Trade Center.

Jimmy Chin

Mountain New York Climb World Look

I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.

Jodi Benson

Myself Coming Up Something Film

As a toddler, my favorite piece of clothing was my Oshkosh denim overalls that I would call my Oreos because I could never say Oshkosh. I was literally obsessed with them and wanted to wear them every single day.

Melina Matsoukas

Day Say Never Single Clothing Wear

I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.

Michael Franti

Society Year Done Three More See

When something's really rad, I'm like, 'That's wicked.'

Stella Maxwell

Wicked Something Like Really

We're human. Enjoy yourself. You work hard every day; you deserve to turn up on the weekends with your friends.

Logic

Work Day Yourself Work Hard Enjoy

I am aware that most 27-year-old writers do not co-host galas in their hometowns.

Derek Blasberg

I Am Aware Most Am Writers

I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature.

Clive Cussler

Writing Literature Easy Want Exotic

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

Claire Messud

Live Heart Me Say Question Must

When I was 18, and my looks were what I was - and all that I was - it did feel very limiting.

Christy Turlington

Feel Looks Did Very Were Limiting

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

Bonnie Blair

Age Parents Me You Serious Way

In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

Depression War Slavery America You