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Claire Messud Quotes

I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1966

Topics

Writing Feedback Group Way Seek

Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple.

Canada Two Maple Beaver

I grew up on hip-hop. I grew up on Run-D.M.C., Whodini, LL when I was in college, so I'm more of a music fan. I probably have the most eclectic collection of music in my Grand Cherokee. Literally, in a span of a week, I'll go from 2Pac to Boyz II Men to Sister Hazel, right down to West Side Story or the Wiz. I love show tunes.

Love Music Men College Sister Story

It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

Stewart Butterfield

Empathy Design Someone You Difficult

Modeling wasn't necessarily what I was into. It's something that you're genetically qualified to do.

You Modeling Genetically Something

What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood.

Mary Tyler Moore

Eye Place Blood Inside Dying Task

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.

Experience Yourself Writing Help You

I still sleep soundly every night. I'm not worried about everything people say.

Sleep People Night Say Everything

I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.

Luke Macfarlane

Live Architecture Design Chair House

I grew up with a single mom, two brothers, and a sister, and after school, we would play outside then go home for dinner and play videogames together. It's something I enjoy doing, and it's also cheap entertainment compared to a movie or paying for cable. You pay $50 one time for a game, and you can play it as many times as you want.

Demetrious Johnson

Home Time Together School Mom Game

It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices.

Start Wake Up Choices Behavior See

I'm from Italy, but when I'm in L.A., I dress a little bit rock and roll.

Chiara Ferragni

Dress Rock And Roll Rock Little Roll

I've said for a long time there is no military solution to the crisis in Syria. There has to be a diplomatic solution. ISIL cannot be part of it. Al-Qaeda cannot be part of it, and Assad cannot be part of it. We are dealing with issues that have been going on for centuries, and I'm not sure the administration fully appreciates that.

Time Solution Long Said Long Time

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