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Mary Gaitskill Quotes

I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 11, 1954

Topics

Think You Write Out Fiction Going

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

Family Home Pain Nostalgia Return

I picked up yoga. I tried to do cooking a little bit. I almost burned my house down, but it's all good. So I just stuck to yoga.

Good Cooking House Down Up Little

Boldness doesn't mean rude, obnoxious, loud, or disrespectful. Being bold is being firm, sure, confident, fearless, daring, strong, resilient, and not easily intimidated. It means you're willing to go where you've never been, willing to try what you've never tried, and willing to trust what you've never trusted. Boldness is quiet, not noisy.

Trust Fearless Strong Confident You

The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

Key Reality Nothing West Show Word

Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate.

Debate Would Barack Obama Cream Newt

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

Life End Always Up Bow Wrapped

When I wrapped 'Falling Skies,' I took a trip to the Caribbean to visit my grandma, which is great. I was out there for two weeks in Grenada. Then after that, I went to Poland for two and a half weeks to go watch some of the European soccer championships.

Brandon Jay McLaren

Great Soccer Go Skies Falling Out

As I got a little older, I discovered Lori McKenna and Patty Griffin and found out how many other tools we have as songwriters, that there's storytelling and there's ear candy, and that there is a place where they meet, too, and both of those women are really good at doing that.

Good Women Tools Doing Place Meet

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Happiness Men Endure Secret Gain

As badly as everybody feels like I'm a sellout for one thing or another, I guess, ultimately, when it came to wrestling, I just wanted to wrestle where I want to wrestle. And something had to be bigger and more important than the money, and for me, it was the time inside that ring.

Time Money Me Important Want Ring

After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.

Lindsey Buckingham

Work Step Me Weird Down Play

BP cannot undo a settlement it negotiated and signed just to avoid its consequences.

Consequences Cannot Just Undo Avoid

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