Nancy Kress Quotes

Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

Nancy Kress

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 20, 1948

Topics

ConflictEverythingFictionAlong

I will say that I do gravitate more towards quirkier guys. I always date guys who wear glasses.

Jillian Rose Reed

GlassesSayWillMoreAlwaysWear

I'm very good at plot.

Matthew Reilly

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When I was young, I liked to spend hours and hours on the practice court.

Stan Wawrinka

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When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods.

Michael Pollan

YouFindGoGoingCaloriesStore

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

Juan Goytisolo

MeValuesLandStrangerLivedAway

I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm on those long international flights, like 22 hours from L.A. to Sydney, I'll get up sometimes and do yoga in the aisle just to stretch out a little bit.

Jason O'Mara

Growing UpLongKnowNowSometimes

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

Drew Barrymore

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I think skating helped me find myself.

Peggy Fleming

MyselfMeThinkFindSkatingHelped

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

James Humes

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Someone had an eye on me as I was leaving high school. I had a chance to record demos, but they were kind of wanting to make a pop singer out of me, of the 'X Factor' variety. I didn't feel comfortable with it. I wanted to be a songwriter.

Hozier

SchoolMeEyeChanceHigh School

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

Hugo Chavez

LiveCommunityRestHumanityHuman

The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.

Gerard Debreu

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