"When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge."

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Source : "Afropolitan Author Talks Fractured Family Ties in ‘Ghana Must Go’". Interview with Patrice Peck, www.ebony.com. May 2, 2013.

Taiye Selasi

#Emotional Quotes #Long Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.”
“Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?”
“By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.”
“Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse usâ€“to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.”

Source : Sarah J. Maas (2012). “Throne of Glass”, p.327, A&C Black
“Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some”
“Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed.”
“I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio) wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe was the best all-around player. Joe was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.”
“None of Us is as Good as All of Us.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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