Nancy Willard Quotes

In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

Nancy Willard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 26, 1936

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I recently discovered the work of Giorgio Manganelli, who wrote a collection called 'Centuria,' which contains 100 stories, each of them about a page long. They're somewhat surreal and extremely dense, at once fierce and purifying, the equivalent of a shot of grappa. I find it helpful to read one before sitting down to write.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

Jesse Eisenberg

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Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.

Meg Cabot

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I think there's a lot of Democrats that would favor reducing the corporate tax rate as long as we find a way to close loopholes so we have a way to pay for it.

Amy Klobuchar

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A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

Tony Benn

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The natural-gas industry is screaming for new markets, and there are only two sectors where these can be found: transportation and power generation.

Robert Zubrin

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When it comes to representing the WWE, I don't like calling myself the 'face of WWE' because we have so many faces and so many superstars. We are a team, we're a roster, and we're a locker room. It absolutely takes every man to make this ship sail.

Roman Reigns

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When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

Mitch Daniels

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That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?

Dennis Banks

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I've got $130 million in the bank and a whiteboard full of cool ideas for emerging markets and technologies where we're gonna test the waters and see what happens.

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I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.

Conor Oberst

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If you're going to have a Hall of Fame, you've got to have Owen Hart in the Hall of Fame.

Bret Hart

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