Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see...
I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.
Popular Quotes Topics for You.
When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.
When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one being diabetes. I became a diabetic at 17 and went on this road of kind of self-destruction, eating-wise, until I was 40.
When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind...
What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.
It's kind of a weird process being pitched by the company you're already with.
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.
I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.
Working on 'Laguna' was great because just being in production and shooting stuff and having to go back and relive some things, and there were some lines here and there that the producers would want us to say, and just...
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.
That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.
