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Claire Messud Quotes

At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?

Claire Messud

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1966

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Day End Of The Day End More Would

All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red.

Jo Ann Emerson

Best Balance Red Connections Doing

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

Joe Torre

Father Best Me Role Model Role

Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'

Jennifer Armintrout

Change Writing Saying Someone Doing

I love guacamole and think about it a lot when I'm supposed to be thinking about language.

Meg Wolitzer

Love Think Thinking Language About

I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

Maya Angelou

Love Hope Dance Me Song Someone

Training is not quite a thing for me yet. It is definitely on my list of things to do.

John John Florence

Training Me Things Quite List Thing

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

John Sandford

Character People Start Saying You

Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant.

Mary Tyler Moore

Always Pretty Much Grant

The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.

Christopher Lee

Marriage Someone Long Secret Always

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Publilius Syrus

Favor Refuse

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sydney J. Harris

Time Over Enemies Lovers Well Come

I grew up in poverty and my mother had to sacrifice a lot for us to eat and get an education - just imagine in a house where we were more than six children! But hard work and dedication is what it took for me to be here today.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Work Hard Work Education Mother Me