"But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I donâ€™t want to live in that world."

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Source : "Reporting Poverty". Interview with Emily Brennan, www.guernicamag.com. September 4, 2012.

Katherine Boo

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“Maybe the new me will be different.”
“Iâ€™m not religious but Iâ€™m definitely very spiritual person. Iâ€™ve always said that religion is for people who are scared of ending up in hell. Spirituality is for those whoâ€™ve already been there.”
“Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.”
“I could always make people laugh.”
“I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think that it is more worthwhile to stick with a story and revise it and try to finish it than abandon ship. Revisions, for any writer, are the name of the game.”
“I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band.”
“The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.”
“You know I won't be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll”

Source : Song: All About That Bass, Album: Title

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