Nancy Kress Quotes

All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.

Nancy Kress

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WalkRealityEasySometimesHuman

Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

Jim Yong Kim

GreatDisciplineProblemsThink

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

Jim Capaldi

WorkMeWritingTitlesOffNaming

Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.

Jesse James Garrett

GrowImportantDevelopmentGoingWeb

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

John Bolton

EndDiplomacyInterestsAdvanceDoes

It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.

Roger Ebert

MeCareDonePleasureSeeUp

I find fantasy easier to write. If I'm going to write science fiction, I spend a lot more time thinking up justifications. I can write fantasy without thinking as much. I like to balance things out: a certain amount of fantasy and a certain amount of science fiction.

Roger Zelazny

ScienceTimeBalanceThinkingFind

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

Lou Holtz

LifeMy LifeTryingComeBeenMake

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

Jonathan Kozol

MusicChildrenTimeChildPeople

Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self-contained entities, the whole shebang.

Jonathan Miles

OwnWholeComeReadSongsPoems

The craziest thing about it, I used to hate fighting, but you had to show how tough you was; you had to show you wasn't no punk.

Deontay Wilder

HateToughFightingYouPunkUsed

There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie.

Dennis Christopher

ActorTwoHippieThingsWantedWere

Somebody rang me up the other day and said 'Yellow' was on a karaoke machine. That made me genuinely excited. It's got a nice beat.

Chris Martin

DayYellowMeSaidNiceBeat

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