Laura van den Berg Quotes

If I leave the fictional world for too long, it's a bit like stepping through a portal, entering another reality, and then not knowing how to get back to where you were before.

Laura van den Berg

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WorldRealityLongNot KnowingYou

I thought about all those people whose suffering had been erased, and I thought, 'Why can't they speak? Why can't I undo some of that erasure?'

Jesmyn Ward

PeopleSufferingSpeakThoughtWhy

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

Merle Haggard

CarSongTrueI Was RaisedSomething

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

John Travolta

LifeI AmInternetFindWhyWill

Authenticity does matter, but only as it serves the novel's more traditional literary demands: that the fault lines be drawn where the internal life and the larger world meet.

Amitava Kumar

LifeWorldMeetMatterAuthenticity

I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.

Stephen Strasburg

TimeGoWantOutGuySeven

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present.

Simon Schama

DeterminationHistoryPastCuriosity

The Lord has a plan. We always think the plans are A, B, C and D, and everything is going to be perfect for us and it may not be that way, but it's still his plan.

Tony Dungy

ThinkPlanPerfectPlansWayAlways

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.

Robert Forster

LookingFeelingNowNeverWhereOur

Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.

Rosalind Wiseman

BullyingFriendsPreventionSometimes

Comedy just comes naturally, so I've always gravitated to comedy.

Rose Abdoo

ComedyAlwaysJustNaturally

I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is write about things you're not into.

Brian Fallon

MyselfPoliticsWritingYouWorst

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

Brit Marling

YourselfParentsEnoughYouWant

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