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Karl Marlantes Quotes

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 24, 1944

Topics

Peace War Me Writing Reading You

French girls don't care about the perfect look; we actually like when it's not perfect because that's what makes our style effortless.

Style Not Perfect Care Perfect Look

I think that high school themes are replayed over and over throughout your life, and you try to pretend that it's a phase and that once you're out of high school it's over, but I don't think that's true.

Michael J. Willett

Life School High School Think You

Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant.

Memories Rich Earth Emotions First

I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con.

Think Gay Grind Mean Clearly Con

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

Music World Fast Folk Music Changed

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.

Science Money People Research Go

Look at the world of both film and indie games, and you'll find a startling similarity between the two when it comes to creating the perfect horror story. The tricks storytellers pull to make your blood run cold never change; a creaking floorboard, the eerie feeling of being watched, wandering into a world filled with unspeakable terror.

Change World Cold Story You Look

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

Government Voting Year Congress Will

In fiction, you learn about pacing and how to build tension - which is something you want in a really good nonfiction feature article as well.

Good Learn You Want Build Fiction

My feeling is that the English are naturally anti-Semitic.

Miriam Margolyes

Feeling English Anti-Semitic

My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring the character out, and the relationships between the different characters. I love all of that, which, unfortunately in film, you get very little opportunity to have.

Love Character Opportunity Process

I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.

Debbie Macomber

Me Feel Enough Person Three Never

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