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Lydia Millet Quotes

If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial.

Lydia Millet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 5, 1968

Topics

Work Creative Feel Doing You Never

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

John Buchanan Robinson

Gold Financial Present Paper Because

I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.

Andrew Davies

Car Beautiful Blue Dark Mercedes

Pink is my go-to color, which is why I have had my hair pink for years, on and off.

Jeffree Star

Hair Color Pink Why Years Off

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

Michael Fassbender

Reality Superhero Playing Even

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

Steven Van Zandt

Great Time Quality World Rest Lose

Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help us realise that.

Robin Morgan

Women Job Help Born More Fragile

It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented.

Don Lemon

Someone Question Ask Stick Presented

I have always felt like I was just sort of waiting to catch up to the rest of myself.

Dove Cameron

Myself Waiting Rest Always Up Catch

I'm not good with sci-fi stuff. I'll be in it, as long as I can see what I'm dealing with and know it's fake. As soon as I watch it on TV, though, my brain registers it as 'Everything's real!'

Chelan Simmons

Good Brain Fake Long I Can Know

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

Clara Hughes

Beautiful Moment Believe Feel Alive

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Thomas Mann

Life Death Expression Only Disease

Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.

Marie Lu

Words Me Moving Writing Story I Can