Charles Frazier I’ve never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends. – Charles Frazier Attached Quotes Depends Quotes Extends Quotes Fiction Quotes Genre Quotes Historic Quotes Intentionally Quotes Labels Quotes Memory Quotes Set Quotes Write Quotes While writing ‘Cold Mountain,’ I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He’s much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic. I’ve lived out West some… I’ve always liked the High Plains areas – eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.
DreamsIsaac Newton We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself. – Isaac Newton
Andy Mineo I make it my business to be around people that don’t look like me or think like me or act like me. I want to learn from them. – Andy Mineo
Henry Louis Gates My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree. – Henry Louis Gates
Rebecca Traister The Daily Show,’ which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the fact that it’s written mostly by men. – Rebecca Traister
Brandon Thomas There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life. – Brandon Thomas
Kathleen Sebelius While closing our innovation gaps won’t solve all our problems, we have some very real opportunities to improve the quality of care that’s delivered to millions of Americans. – Kathleen Sebelius
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