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Barbara Delinsky Quotes

Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.

Barbara Delinsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 9, 1945

Topics

Need Own Variety Sense Different

I'm always thinking about what a black lady would think about what I'm doing, just because I feel like they have such great taste, mostly because as black women, we've spent a lot of time downloading what a white male narrative is, so in my head, I'm like, 'If a black woman likes it, if she responds to it, then it's probably pretty damn great.'

Jessica Williams

Women Great Time Woman Thinking

As Lucasfilm is developing IP and we're working on our projects, we should be using those films to advance the ball further down the field and to make things better for the rest of the company and the rest of the industry.

John Knoll

Rest Better Down Company Industry

I think it's really important that women are represented in the media, and diverse women as well.

Angourie Rice

Women Think Media Important Well

It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.

Jeb Bush

Life Family America Important Pretty

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

Life Change Best Death Destination

Chelsea gave me everything that I needed, and now I have time to give back all that Chelsea give me.

Alvaro Morata

Time Me Back Now Everything Give Me

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

Steven Spielberg

Friend Mother Me Remember Hands Up

We must make children and families a national priority.

Robert Casey

Children Must Make Priority Families

Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.

Mick Ronson

Music Thought Kind Bear Never Just

I'm doing real journalism.

Mike Cernovich

Famous You Nobody How Tells

The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin affair is one of the most important and clarifying moments in American history.

Mike Gallagher

History American Moments Important

It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.

Joy Williams

Say Become Days Because Well Whole