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Susan Wiggs Quotes

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

Susan Wiggs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american

Topics

Learning Patience Time Dance Talent

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.

Jerry Saltz

Art Eating Drawing Now Museums More

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

Johannes Stark

Great Problem Solution Measure Will

You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage.

John Cornyn

Courage Red You Find Say Vote

I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic, and I don't find that as interesting as one who's really damaged and flawed and has post-traumatic stress disorder.

Melissa Rosenberg

Character Stress Woman Interesting

With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

Steven Pinker

Nature Problem Human Nature Solution

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Tony Visconti

Family Humor Me Friends Sometimes

The weakness that our campaign and that I had is we weren't effective in taking my message primarily to minority voters.

Mitt Romney

Weakness Minority Message Effective

Many of my books are set in New Jersey because that's where I was born and raised. I lived there until my kids finished elementary school. Then we moved to New Mexico, the setting for 'Tiger Eyes.'

Judy Blume

Eyes School Tiger Born New Mexico

I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!

Jay Ryan

Sports Me Professional Play Always

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Josiah Strong

City Rich Poverty Poor Rule Greater

Right when I started touring, there was this wariness I had of the world outside of my small town. But I'm not that person anymore, and I was never completely that person.

Jason Isbell

World Small Small Town Person Never

I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

David Wenham

Character Journey Man King Start