Lucy Jane Bledsoe famous quotes

that crack of the bat against a ball has been my mantra, a sound I hear in desperate moments, at times when I crave total satisfaction, a sound I hear over and over when I want something very badly but can't express what it is.
-- Lucy Jane Bledsoe

#Sports #Baseball #Moments

When I was fifteen I believed that sex was nearly the same thing as softball.
-- Lucy Jane Bledsoe

#Softball #Baseball

About writing I learned that always, always, always it's necessary to haunt your settings. I'm a big researcher. All my fiction is based on tons of digging. But the vital importance of actually traveling to the settings of a novel really hit me. And it's not just the setting details, not just the visuals and other sensory data, that will pop. You'll find surprising clues that swerve your story in whole new, deeper, surprising, more organic ways.
-- Lucy Jane Bledsoe

#Writing #Clue #Importance

I completely agree that place is the most emotionally resonant aspect of a story. Our environment affects us every bit as much as our relationships with other people. I love work that recognizes that.
-- Lucy Jane Bledsoe

#People #Environment #Our Relationship

I love my work. What's more fun than playing with imagination? I also believe storytelling is the most powerful way people communicate with one another, interpret our lives, share our dreams, even form our futures. So when I sit down to write every day, I keep the fun, and also what I consider a large cultural project that connects people, at the center of what I'm doing.
-- Lucy Jane Bledsoe

#Dream #Fun #Powerful

My job is to tell good stories, convey meanings, invoke emotion as well as I can. I'd rather be doing that than anything else.
-- Lucy Jane Bledsoe

#Emotion

Writing is incredibly hard. But I want to do it. That said, I make it the top priority in every day, which for me means the first hours after getting out of bed in the morning. I've been doing it enough years now that I don't even think about waiting for my muse to show up, I just get to work.
-- Lucy Jane Bledsoe

#Morning #Writing #Mean

I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.

It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.