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Kaui Hart Hemmings Quotes

When a place comes across vividly in a novel, it's often compared to a character. I can remember writing teachers who encouraged me to treat setting as if it were a character, to give it three dimensions, to make it come alive, jump off the page.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

Topics

Character Me Writing Treat Remember

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

Jim Rash

Passion Will Explore Always Afraid

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Joanna Lumley

Three Race Sound See British Really

I probably looked pretty conventionally successful as a 24-year-old getting paid $125,000 a year, plus bonus, wearing suits, and living in a Manhattan apartment. But I hated my job, I didn't admire the people I was working with, and I felt that I was becoming a smaller, less imaginative, less risk-taking, less likable version of myself.

Andrew Yang

Myself Job People Suits Year Living

I don't believe in very many things, but art is definitely one of them. And at the top of that list, film and art influence our world's culture much more than many of us understand and fully respect.

Megan Ellison

Respect Art Culture World Believe

In non-fiction, I found John Gardner's two writing books to be tremendously helpful.

Ann Leckie

Writing Two Helpful Books Found

What I really want, what I always really want, is baked potato and grilled cheese. But then I'd be really fat.

Stella McCartney

Fat Cheese Want Always Potato Then

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Shirley Jackson

Life Children Memoir Disrespectful

I think, for me, the goal was never really for my EPs to go mainstream. I think the intention of them was to create a little bit of buzz and to show my musicality because I wrote and produced the EPs myself. The goal was to experiment, with no rules.

Tori Kelly

Myself Me Think Rules Goal Create

God operates the world by covenants. Those covenants have specific jurisdictions and responsibilities, not to be infringed upon by another covenant.

Tony Evans

God World Covenant Responsibilities

The things I write about are completely removed from my own life, but people want to know the characters better.

Ruth Rendell

Life People Better Know Want My Own

I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered.

Mary Szybist

Communication Prayer Moving Voice

Video looks like reality, it's more immediate, it has a verite surface to it. Film has this liquid kind of surface, feels like something made up.

Michael Mann

Reality Looks Kind More Up Film