Nancy Kress Quotes

The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.

Nancy Kress

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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'

Barbara Jordan
- People
- Me
- Decision
I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.

Ozzie Smith
- People
- Business
- Know
I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.

Kate McKinnon
- People
- Good
- Company
There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.

Ibrahim Hooper
- People
- Life
- Now
One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

Kate Forsyth
- People
- Words
- Imagination
I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

Becky G
- People
- Music
- Song