Natasha Trethewey Quotes

I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.

Natasha Trethewey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 26, 1966

Topics

MomentStoryTryingBackFindKnow

I come to work, and I have a good time. I have no reason to change anything that I do.

Jim Pattison

WorkChangeGoodTimeReasonCome

The best thing we've learned is when you are attempting to write a full song, write a full song that day. When we first started, we would have great ideas, but there's something about a moment and a vibe that's being created in time that when you return to it, it sometimes works, and it sometimes doesn't.

Jillian Hervey

GreatTimeMomentBestDayIdeas

You have to do stuff that you're actually incredibly passionate and excited about and you know something about. The 'oppor-tuneurs' don't do as well as the entrepreneurs.

Michael Dell

YouKnowPassionateExcitedWell

Most uses of bioassay involving smooth muscle demand high sensitivity and specificity.

John Vane

MuscleHighDemandSmoothMostUses

I have been doing merch' since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager - silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom's closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That's essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.

Steve Aoki

CollegeMomDoingDarkSellingRoom

My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot.

Tony DiTerlizzi

FocusActiveOverEmotionalPlot

When I talk about the C.I.A. stuff, I feel guilt because I left. I really believed in that job, and my colleagues are still there. But I have kids now.

Tom King

JobColleaguesFeelGuiltNowTalk

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

Robert Bly

GreatHumanHuman BeingBeingSurely

You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

WorldSillyYouPlaceNewChicago

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

ManDesirePoorPoor ManAlmost

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

Johnny Miller

GreatGolfMentalMakesAspect

The more limitations you put on a character, often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.

Brandon Sanderson

WorkCharacterStoryBetterWave

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