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Gillian Cross Quotes

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: 1945

Topics

Writing Powerful Perfect Exploring

The hardest people to play in front of are my brothers and friends from childhood, because I can never take them seriously. I know when they're sitting in the stands; it's constant jokes. They're just waiting on me to shoot an air ball or dribble the ball off my foot so they can laugh.

Childhood Waiting People Me Laugh

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

Time Discrimination You Say Over

The passing of John Bonham... Let's just put it... Before we say, 'the passing of John Bonham,' the introduction of John Bonham on the first album and 'Good Times Bad Times,' it changes drumming overnight.

Good Good Times Bad Say Bad Times

I think that there are three incredible brands in the news and information space. I think ESPN owns sports; I think the Weather Channel owns weather, and I want CNN to own news and information in the global digital video space.

Sports Space Weather Think Three

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

Step Church Tradition New Out Up

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

Me Cold Think Down Know Way

White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.

Stress White Racial Defensive Even

Internet as a service is like culture that you have to understand, and each country has a local culture.

Service Culture Internet You Country

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Mistakes Originality Universal Only

In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.

Me Go Date Fact Wanted Really

I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities.

History Responsibility Politics Job

I'm confident - confident in my skin, and I'm cool with my flaws and all that stuff.

Cool Confident Flaws Skin Stuff

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