Nancy Kress Quotes

For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).

Nancy Kress

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BookExpectationsHappenRomanceMay

Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.

Joel Fuhrman

WorkControlFightingBecauseDrives

I don't believe in fad diets.

Jenny Craig

BelieveDietFadDiets

We will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

Robin Gibb

LifeNowWillPursueFinalQuest

You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases.

Ronald Coase

FamilyBehaviorYouSayMoreWithin

It turns out that the left temporal lobe, if there's a lesion there, will create hyper-religiosity. People become super-religious. They see demons and spirits everywhere. We think Joan of Arc may have had it.

Michio Kaku

PeopleThinkDemonsCreateBecome

That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.

Don McLean

PastSongProcessAmericanPieOut

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.

Dinaw Mengestu

AmericanImmigrantWriterNeeds

I'd love to open for Bieber. It would be awesome; that would definitely be the crowd I would want to play to.

Christina Grimmie

LovePlayWantAwesomeOpenCrowd

'A Storm of Swords' is a massive volume, and it seemed like it would be shortchanging it to try to cram it into ten episodes.

Bryan Cogman

StormTryWouldLikeTenVolume

Our founding documents didn't just protect the right to bear arms: they were designed to protect all the principles upon which America was founded - and the first among those were freedom of worship, peaceful assembly, and the right to free speech.

Anthea Butler

FreedomFreeAmericaSpeechPeaceful

All my best memories of my brother are in vehicles, speeding, predatory or celebratory. We were just made to drive. For the last 12 years of his life, he lived as caretaker of an orange grove. There, on 18 acres, my brother collected cars and trucks and motorcycles.

Susan Straight

LifeMemoriesBestBrotherDrive

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

Norah Jones

LoveFunBecauseMusicianSupposed

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