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Nelson DeMille Quotes

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 23, 1943

Topics

Writing Think Process Better Done

An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.

Power You Athlete Possible Need

I've seen people spend days, if not months, researching and gathering data, but only at the end did they finally figure out what they were really looking for; then they have to redo a lot of stuff. If after a day or so you force yourself to put together your tentative conclusions, then you'll have guidance for the rest of your research.

Day Together Yourself People Rest

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy.

Love Good Comedy Bad Like I Love

I go to somewhere I haven't been and just watch people and colors. That's my inspiration.

People Colors Go Inspiration Watch

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

Rufus Wainwright

Life Work Love Father Mother Three

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

Age Art People Me Writing Reading

When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves.

Diversity Democracy Tradition Say

When you're running around and playing, it's amazing ground for imagination, and that's really the biggest muscle you need for anything in the arts. I think it's probably the biggest training I've had.

Imagination Training Amazing Think

Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released.

Fantasy Slaves Abolition Released

When I was growing up, I was surrounded by people that were listening to a lot of pop music.

Music People Growing Up Listening Up

Equal rights should not be debatable and certainly should not be put to a vote of the people. Would we ask the electorate to vote on whether or not Catholics and Protestants should marry? Of course we would not.

Richard Grenell

People Vote Ask Equal Rights Would

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

Think Comedy Feeling Entertainment

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