Kathleen Rooney famous quotes

I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.
-- Kathleen Rooney

#Facts #Trouble #Invention

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.
-- Kathleen Rooney

#Writing #Thinking #Important

Not to give too big of a spoiler, but I never find myself thinking, for example, Oh, remember that crazy time I stumbled on that closeted Republican candidate's sex tape?
-- Kathleen Rooney

#Sex #Crazy #Thinking

The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel.
-- Kathleen Rooney

#Ingredients #Novel #Essays

In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.
-- Kathleen Rooney

#Nonfiction #Technique #Realizing

Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.
-- Kathleen Rooney

#Distance #Giving #Steps

If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear.
-- Kathleen Rooney

#Believe #Perspective #Choices

You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.

It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.

The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision...

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.