Nancy Kress Quotes

Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.

Nancy Kress

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

John Lasseter

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You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.

Robert Gottlieb

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I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black and white to it. But sometimes I'm seeing it like I'm 4.

Steven Wright

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I go to a lot of writers conferences and literary festivals that tend to be in college towns or cities, and I'm eager to see what happens if those same texts and those same questions move outside of those areas to smaller rural communities where there are surely people who read and love poetry.

Tracy K. Smith

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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Robert Frost

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A good conscience is a continual feast.

Robert Burton

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I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.

Louis Begley

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What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things.

Lita Ford

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It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.

Jasmine Guy

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The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

Jonathan Kozol

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I come from a family with a long tradition in shoemaking, and I still live in a region famous for its shoemakers. It is getting harder and harder to find skilled workers. There are no professional training institutes, so we have to train our own employees. And an apprenticeship takes three years.

Diego Della Valle

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