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Laura van den Berg Quotes

It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm totally open to useful influence. I'm praying for it.

Laura van den Berg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1983

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Me Writing Influence Say Want Open

Major Lazer has always been a culture mashup, and to us, India feels like some kind of special creature with one foot in history and one firmly in the future.

Jillionaire

Future History Culture India Kind

When it comes to kids, it's just not hard to get them healthy. I don't find it hard and don't understand why people find it hard.

Jillian Michaels

People Find Healthy Why Understand

I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.

Andrew Clements

Best World Letters Teachers Get

I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends, and that's a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I've never been a journal keeper.

Meghan Daum

Time Thinking Friends Sometimes Way

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

Michael Caine

Change Me Say Actor Will Difference

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Stephen King

Life You Wheel Always Where Started

In 1817, Czar Alexander I personally founded the Society of Israelite Christians but had less luck defeating Judaism than he'd had defeating Napoleon; gentile serfs and merchants in areas bordering the Pale even showed disturbing new signs of 'Judaizing.'

Tom Reiss

Luck Society New Signs Judaism Even

I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while in a deli, and when I was almost 17, I got married.

Mary Beth Whitehead

School High School Year Quit High

'The Strange Thing About the Johnsons' is so disturbing but so good, because it went through a lot of things that you don't really see, ever.

Milly Shapiro

Good You Strange See Through Things

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

Strength Success Me You Goal Secret

I only write about stuff that sort of happens to me, and then I blow it up into a much funnier version.

Jason Jones

Me Write Up Only Stuff Happens

I originally went to school for engineering because I loved math and thought I liked science.

Christina Tosi

Science School Thought Loved Because