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Antonya Nelson Quotes

Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 6, 1961

Topics

Character Empathy Impossible Reading

The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not.

God Looking Thank God You Say See

I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

Jens Stoltenberg

Think Taxi Driver Prime Would Than

I'm a white girl and not a white girl, identified by other people as black and not black for as long as I can remember - which, in mixed-people speak, means biracial.

Girl People Speak Black Remember

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

Attitude Prison Think Leaving Human

I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.

Time Ideas Story I Can Write Head

The most important thing is to stay the course - not to get shaken out of the market during a difficult time.

John W. Rogers, Jr.

Time Important Difficult Out Market

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

Television Old Years Soap Books TV

There's an assumption that my audience is all these bearded twats from Dalston. But actually, quite a lot of older people go. For them, it's like pre-alternative comedy, when there was Dave Allen or Jackie Mason or someone. Also, weirdly, because I don't really swear, they're not scared off.

People Comedy Someone Go Audience

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

Life Learning War Red Child Flowers

The space genre is timeless.

Space Timeless Genre

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

Education Children Better More Must

People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

Love Stars People Fall Want Movies

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