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Claire Messud Quotes

If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.

Claire Messud

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1966

Topics

Work People World You Done Write

White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it.

Jenny Zhang

People Color White Always Out Been

I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens.

Michael Giles

Know Anything Still Who Happens

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights.

Amy Bloom

Story Short You Lights Way See

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

Amy Clampitt

Time Anxiety Long You Mad Long Time

Hidden nature is secret God.

Sri Aurobindo

Nature God Hidden Secret

Some artists are able to pull off a very form-fitting, painted-on look that's very modern, but I have actually come around to embracing the idea that that these costumes are more like athletic uniforms than high-tech skin suits.

Stuart Immonen

Suits Look Skin More Uniforms Off

Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

Trevor Dunn

I Am Now Collecting Obsessed Am

I want to be happy going to work. I want to do a show I'm proud of.

Rob Thomas

Work Happy Be Happy Proud Want Show

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Mary Douglas

History Church Go Rome Cults Which

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

Jay Inslee

Day Environmental Energy Earth Some

I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.

Brett Ratner

Love Hate Opinion iPhone Toy Wins

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

Bryant H. McGill

Failure Become Sanctuary Your