Kimberly Willis Holt Quotes

If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no matter how terrible you think that first draft is. Then let it cool off. In other words, don't look at it for a while. Then you can rewrite it.

Kimberly Willis Holt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 9, 1960

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The aim of any writer, even a fantasy writer, is the pursuit of truth.

Matt Haig

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Growing up, one of the shows that the entire family ate dinner at the table was 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.' That was one of the greatest television shows ever, and then I'm a fan of 'Firefly.'

Luke Macfarlane

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Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image that reverberates.

Louise Erdrich

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I used to love listening to Jazzy Jeff.

Juicy J

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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?

Brett Gelman

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To set a trap for a handful of promiscuous individuals, the Zina law has laid a minefield for women in difficult circumstances.

Asma Jahangir

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Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

Peter Diamandis

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All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.

Shane Smith

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You can't claim to be pro-life and then vote to remove the restrictions that prevented government-funded abortions in the District of Columbia.

Scott DesJarlais

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I just knew that I was funny, and I knew that it was just a matter of time. I didn't know what was going to actually happen - this is definitely way bigger than I thought - but I knew there was no way I was going to be that funny, and nobody was going to notice it.

Leslie Jones

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There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

Lewis Tappan

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