Sheila Heti When you’re writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You’re dealing with emotions and thoughts that are native to you. So that probably winds up in your characters. – Sheila Heti Attempt Quotes Characters Quotes Dealing Quotes Emotions Quotes Native Quotes Understand Quotes Winds Quotes Writing Quotes Many of the traits in my characters are exaggerations of things I see in myself. But in ‘How Should a Person Be?’ I wasn’t trying to write about myself so much as a combination of myself and these women I was seeing in our culture. If you want to write from life, you can’t really write a story. People are always changing, and I think if we didn’t look the same day-to-day, and our self weren’t always in our body, would we even be the same? The continuity is in our bodies.
Gene Luen Yang My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I’m familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture. – Gene Luen Yang
Alfred Lord Tennyson We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother’s shame; however you take it we men are a little breed. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Mumtaz I can proudly say that for 80 per cent of my life, I achieved what I wanted to. There were very few setbacks. I don’t remember anything that I wanted and did not get. Once I made up my mind about something, I went for it. The easiest thing in life is to give up and I didn’t. – Mumtaz
Anne Applebaum Shell companies can be owned by other shell companies; opaque offshore vehicles are carefully designed so that regulators can’t identify who is using them; with the right accountants, they can be set up quickly and easily. – Anne Applebaum
David Lammy The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham. – David Lammy
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