"I write about true-life type things."

-- Karen Kingsbury

#Writing Quotes #True Life Quotes #Type Quotes

“Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the rules of grammar and the rules about appropriate speech in various situations.”

Source : Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.240, Vintage
“My best quality is that I talk to everyone. My worst quality is that I talk to everyone.”
“Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.”
“My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.”
“I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.”
“Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others”
“You'll never get to heaven, if you break my heart.”

Source : Song: You'll Never Get To Heaven If You Break My Heart
“I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.”

Source : "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glance, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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