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Nicole Krauss Quotes

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 18, 1974

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Beginning Me Writing Create Kind

In the frequently-asked-question category, the question I get asked almost as much as 'What's the worst thing you've ever eaten?' is 'What's the best pair of pants to travel in, work in, trek in, and use on the road for the most activities possible?'

Work Best Travel Road You Possible

I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.

People Breakfast Think Famous Feel

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

Matthew Macfadyen

Youth Theatre Place Get Terrifying

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

John Philpot Curran

Smile Silver Plate Like Coffin His

In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching.

Criticism Way More Complex Temper

If your characters are two-dimensional and your plot uncompelling, it won't matter how incredibly detailed and believable your fantasy world might be.

World Fantasy Matter Your Plot How

I feel a lot of guilt about the freedom that being an artist provides. I ask myself, 'Why am I not the guy emptying the trash, why am I the guy who is watching the guy empty the trash?'

Freedom Myself Feel Guilt Artist

I am not a shock jock pastry chef. I don't create desserts using strange ingredients just for the sake of doing so, like so many of my colleagues in the industry.

I Am Chef Colleagues Doing Create

If you're passionate about something, you can develop the abilities.

You Passionate Something Develop

I've always been kind of uncomfortable just on the beach in a swimsuit. I'm never my most confident in a bikini on the beach, especially when you know people are looking at you, and they expect one thing because of what they see in the magazines, and you might not look that way. It's always been a scary thing for me.

Beach People Me Looking Confident

It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.

Pay Through Low Paid Chief Benefits

When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.

Alistair Brownlee

Good Inspire Scenery Week You Train

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