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Nancy Kress Quotes

Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Character Focus Action Story Short

Being back on stage in New York, off-Broadway - I mean, that's an actor's dream.

New York Back Dream New Actor Mean

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

Father Mother Late 1940s Babies

You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us.

People Think You Know More Aware

Heavy metal is always going to be there. At its core, it's all about a primitive connection we all need to keep in our lives.

Connection Need Always Heavy Metal

I'm very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I'm very much interested in upgrading the public school system... and taking a second look at capital punishment.

School Stock Market Look Punishment

I don't write a novel every two years.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Write Two Years Novel Every

It's just not good to put stock in a Hollywood celebrity.

Good Hollywood Celebrity Just Put

I still think about the first time I met Lennox Lewis, and he took the time out to talk to me, and he showed me different techniques. I'll never forget. Lennox was one of those guys that set the standard. He's a hard act to follow. But I love a challenge.

Love Time Challenge Me Think Forget

I've never hidden my Christianity in Hollywood, and I've been handled respectfully because I handle the issue and other people respectfully.

People Hollywood Hidden Never Handle

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Think You Forget Test Will See

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

Clayton M. Christensen

Service Finance Balance American Put

Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.

Action Need Just Course Should

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