Kate Grenville Quote: 'I would never write a sentence ...'

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Nationality: Australian
Birthday: October 14, 1950

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Me Like Would Never Write Nice Seems Leave Published Rhythm Sentence Prose

Nell Freudenberger

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DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

Leslie Fiedler

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I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

Mary Oliver

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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Henry James

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I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

Steve Martin

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Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

A. A. Milne

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I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.

Val McDermid

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I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

Roddy Doyle

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I'd like to meet a nice girl and leave all those 'hottest bachelor' lists behind.

Jesse Metcalfe

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I would love to have a nice straight nose, which God never gave me!

Juhi Chawla

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Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.

Lars Mikkelsen

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It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

Isadora Duncan

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In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Haruki Murakami

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If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.

Mordechai Vanunu

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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Thomas Carlyle

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I get recognized often, but they don't treat me like a god. It would be nice if they did, I think.

Mark Pellegrino

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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.

Shelby Foote

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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Jean Baudrillard

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Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what their take on my delivery is or what they think that I can do with something. So I kind of leave that to them.

Isaiah Mustafa

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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.

Edmund White

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