Michelle Zauner I don’t think a lot of Korean people even make kimchi. My mom certainly didn’t, so it’s a very extra thing to do in the same way that I guess baking bread can be an even longer process that you’re unsure about for a long time. – Michelle Zauner Baking Quotes Bread Quotes Extra Quotes Guess Quotes Kimchi Quotes Korean Quotes Lot Quotes Mom Quotes People Quotes Process Quotes Time Quotes Unsure Quotes There was a couple weeks when I was like, I’m going vegan and gluten free. Then I was trying all these weird diets because I think there was this element of control over my surroundings that that gave me. I never made kimchi before. I talk about my first time making it in the book, and I’m not a big baker, but I imagine it’s like a similar kind of feeling for a lot of people who are bakers where it’s just something that takes time. There’s so much space to be reflective and meditative.
Nick Harkaway In a novel, even if you put a country in the wrong hemisphere, which I’ve done, I can always claim it was part of the additional weirdness of the story. – Nick Harkaway
Simon Pegg Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever. – Simon Pegg
Ralph Ellison America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description. – Ralph Ellison
Randall Jarrell To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all. – Randall Jarrell
Jim Ross I always say the wrestlers provide the music and the announcers write the lyrics. You have to feel what you’re seeing and experiencing to write the best lyrics. – Jim Ross
Cynthia Ozick When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been disparaged or dismissed or ignored. She was, after all, a novelist who did not eschew politics or polemics – sometimes silently though defiantly, as in her relationship with George Henry Lewes. – Cynthia Ozick
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