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Elizabeth Strout Quotes

Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and a paragraph will just kind of come out. And that's great. But that's not ordinary in a day's work.

Elizabeth Strout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 6, 1956

Topics

Work Great Day You Sometimes Kind

What brings people down is the same thing over and over.

Meg Ryan

People Down Same Over Same Thing

I'm always being asked if I watch 'The X Factor,' and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift.

Shirley Bassey

Great Time Gift Know Real Always

From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the United States.

Robert Dallek

January Moment Action Problem Settle

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Nature Ignorance Greed Hatred

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

Mike Figgis

Guitar Play Trumpet Piano Classical

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

Ariel Winter

Mother Brother Me Sister Name She

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Ansel Adams

Good Stand Knowing Photograph Where

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

Allison Pearson

Nature Mother Child Nurture Against

I've seen cookbooks from lots of great chefs that have been disappointing. A book, to me, it has to have a story. Some of these people, they open a restaurant, and one year later, there's a cookbook. There's not much of a story yet.

Wylie Dufresne

Great People Me Book Story Year

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

William S. Burroughs

Fear Technology Doing Understand

I think 'Mistresses' is so successful because it's a mixture of intriguing storylines with lots of twists and it is rooted very strongly in reality and it's really glossy.

Shelley Conn

Think Reality Successful Rooted Very

My father wasn't there the majority of the time. My father, someone who I always honored and looked up to, had been in the military; he had been to war. I would hear stories about different experiences he went through, but as I got older, my father moved away.

Rick Ross

Father Time War Someone Military Up