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Sonya Hartnett Quotes

I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.

Sonya Hartnett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: australian
Birth: March 23, 1968

Topics

Work Me Writing Skills Understand

As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose your rhythm and context, meaning that your writing may lose its power.

Andrea Hirata

Power Art Writing Meaning You Lose

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

Ann Leckie

Writing Thought Fabulous Kid Always

Every family has that secret. Every family has that thing where you go, 'Shhh, shhh, shhh.'

Jeffrey Tambor

Family You Go Secret Where Every

My kitchen in New York City is in the Richard Meier building on Perry Street, so it's ultra-modern: white, glass and transparent. It's 180 square feet, with an induction stove. Everything's hidden, so you don't see the microwave or the fridge.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

New York City Building Kitchen Feet

I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they were recorded. And they were incredibly moving.

Steve Martin

Moving Always Harvard Fan He Did

Senator McConnell is by all accounts a decent person. He's pretty conservative, too.

Tucker Carlson

Person Conservative Pretty Decent He

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

Ruth Rendell

Style Book Elegance You Kind Matter

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

Livy

Crime Rational Ever Defended Grounds

I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.

Doug Jones

Character Empathy Evil You Play

Politics itself is not sacred any more.

Donald Tusk

Politics More Sacred Any Itself

Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman - I guess I like a lot of '70s music.

Bret McKenzie

Music Listen Everything Like Guess

I take pride in saying that I am an army officer's daughter even more than being an actor.

Anushka Sharma

Daughter I Am Saying Pride Army