Holly Black Quotes

Someday I would like to be the kind of writer who barrels through a draft, but I can't even seem to barrel through an interview like this, so I imagine I have a long way to go.

Holly Black

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 10, 1971

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Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

Melissa Etheridge

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I loved Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita Sackville-West. I also loved Michael Holroyd's immense biography of Lytton Strachey.

Stephen McCauley

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I'm just gonna write a record for my kid, and if people hate it, it doesn't matter.

Sturgill Simpson

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I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

Christine McVie

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Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

Chuck Klosterman

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A good story needs equally good talent to foster it.

Arfi Lamba

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What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.

Philippe Petit

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I just absolutely needed the theatre so desperately - it was my fate; it was where I was running towards. It was the place where I found peace and survival and all kinds of things.

Mark Rylance

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I've never worked in the U.K. television industry, but my guess it that it's a tough world for directors.

Lenny Abrahamson

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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

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I have been blessed. I really have.

Glen Campbell

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