Avpm Quotes

#1. Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

Donna J. Haraway

#2. The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. I'm far from a saint.

Clay Guida

#4. I'm interested in Jeff Bridges. I love that guy. And I did like Carey Mulligan in 'An Education.' And I love Meryl Streep, but if they could ban 'Julie & Julia,' I'd be in favor of that.

Andy Kindler

#5. I'm having the weirdest sense of deja vu right now," said the green caterpiller.
Duh!" said the blue caterpiller. "Do you think, just maybe, that's because you predicted this?"
Oh, yeah."
The Looking Glass Wars

Frank Beddor

#6. Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim's logo.

Joseph Brodsky

#7. Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

Amy Chua

#8. Speak to her now? But that's just why I'm afraid to speak - because I'm happy now, happy in hope, anyway ... . And then? ... . But I must! I must! I must! Away with weakness!

Leo Tolstoy

#9. You think that killing people will make them like you more, but it doesn't,it just makes them dead.

Joe Walker

#10. I don't know much about any of the Hasidim because the men won't talk to me because I'm a woman, and the women won't talk to me because, while I am Jewish, I'm not Hasidic.

Jami Attenberg

#11. Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

John Denham