Nancy Kress Quotes

If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

Nancy Kress

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Playing a cop on TV and working closely with actual cops on set, I do think the media does a disservice to our first responders.

Jesse Lee Soffer

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I played with a band in Austin when I was doing 'Friday Night Lights.' It was a blast.

Jesse Plemons

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Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

Andrew Weil

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Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

John Cleese

I CanWayWriteWellGetRole

It's important to realize that everybody who went into country music, and most everybody who went into rock and roll in the '50s, they had no more goal than a hit on the jukebox. Johnny Cash, from the very beginning, had a goal that he wanted to make music that lifted people's spirits.

Robert Hilburn

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My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work.

Jeffrey Jones

WorkMyselfJobStoryHelpWithin

A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.

Steve Gleason

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When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.

Stewart Brand

NatureGodStartDoingYouRight

I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.

Sinead O'Connor

StandEnoughStreetNeedPayBills

Charleston, South Carolina, is about a 90-minute drive northwest of Beaufort and Parris Island. It is an old city reborn with new charm and an influx of snowbirds from the North attracted by its ease, comfort and accessibility.

Mike Barnicle

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I wouldn't eat a 1,000-calorie bowl of spaghetti for dinner, but I've always loved pasta and think it's a good addition to any meal and a great base for pretty much any vegetable. It's also great when I have a nervous stomach before race day.

Mikaela Shiffrin

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The White House would love to see Obamacare taken apart all at once, bit by bit, however we can do it.

Mick Mulvaney

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