Ntozake Shange Quotes

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that.

Ntozake Shange

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AngerWritingThinkTryingReady

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

Jim Balsillie

AttentionYouImportantRealPay

You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

Jennifer Egan

ResearchYouMeanFallingStill

I don't put labels on myself.

John Engler

MyselfLabelsPut

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

Amy Ray

MeLookingStartBookDownSee

Design shouldn't have to take a backseat to sustainability and making things responsibly.

Amber Valletta

DesignSustainabilityThingsTake

When a story or part of a story comes to me, I turn it over in my mind a long time before starting to write. I might make notes or take long drives or who knows what. By the time I give myself permission to write, I know certain things, though not everything. I know where the story is headed, and I know certain crucial points along the way.

Steven Millhauser

TimeMyselfMindMeStoryLong

My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It's great leverage; we abuse it all the time!

Matt Barr

LifeGreatTimeOceanBrotherStory

Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down. I have bits and pieces all over my hard drive.

Diana Gabaldon

DriveDownHardBubblesUpAnything

If you were around when 'Them!' or 'Tarantula' came out, those effects were as good as you had ever seen.

Dean Devlin

GoodYouOutSeenThoseAround

I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and bring on the character's off-stage life, what happened that is not revealed.

Christopher Plummer

LifeLoveCharacterTryingSometimes

I can't deal with the ears in 'Star Trek.' I only saw the first 'Star Wars' movie, and I don't think I saw an entire 'Star Trek' TV show, and I certainly didn't see the movie. I like 'Andy Griffith' and 'Deadwood.'

Clyde Edgerton

ThinkFirstSeeStarEarsSaw

I like it when, you know, 3-under wins, you know, 20-under par, it just brings so many other people into contention.

Paula Creamer

PeopleYouKnowJustLikeWins

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