Eleanor Catton I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual. – Eleanor Catton Conceptual Quotes Plotted Quotes Prefer Quotes I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th century. The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the New Zealandness of them was not what carried me or excited me.
Derek Walcott Individual writers have different postures, different stances, even different physical attitudes as they stand or sit over their blank paper, and in a sense, without doing it, they are crossing themselves; I mean, it’s like the habit of Catholics going into water: you cross yourself before you go in. – Derek Walcott
Finty Williams I was 18 and had an inverted light bulb moment where I thought that nothing I could do or say or how I looked was ever going to be good enough. – Finty Williams
Rosa DeLauro President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts. – Rosa DeLauro
Ryne Sandberg I’ve been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That’s always been important to me and I think it’s always been special. – Ryne Sandberg
Rue McClanahan Our show was – it remained – you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn’t know – they wouldn’t get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they’re watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn’t say anything blatant. – Rue McClanahan
Cecile de France We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things. – Cecile de France
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