Nancy Kress Quotes

If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.

Nancy Kress

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WillMoreFollowOpeningSitSure

I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.

John Lasseter

StorytellingBigBeingBig FanFan

Thoreau points out clearly that civil disobedience gets its moral authority by the willingness to suffer the penalties from disobeying a law, even if you think that law is unjust.

Michael Hayden

LawThinkYouMoralAuthorityOut

There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.

Amy Ryan

TimeBabyDoorParentLearnBody

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

LawFactsFindFollowApplyThem

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Sidney Hook

EducationHeartTeacherTeachersOwn

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'

Roy Blount, Jr.

TimeBetterFindI CanSaidSay

I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that.

Louis Tomlinson

I AmDeafRightSomethingGoingEar

In a way, a stage can be the safest place to be visibly queer and non-gender conforming because you're literally surrounded by witnesses. Any type of violence that a person might try to carry out on you, that's just not a very likely place to do it.

Liv Bruce

ViolenceYouPlacePersonWayTry

Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by being related to him, I had it in my head that I had to like him.

Dree Hemingway

AmazingThinkSaidHimHeadBeing

It's fun when you're confusing people.

Ashton Irwin

FunPeopleYouConfusing

My life has been varied, involving many jobs, but I have always been impatient with injustice.

Winnie Byanyima

LifeMy LifeInjusticeAlwaysBeen

An American champion, obviously being here in the states, is something that we all look at with the U.S. Open. But golf is played all over the world, and there are so many great golfers from other countries, and we're lucky enough that this is our home base to be able to play out of.

Paula Creamer

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