- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The surprising question we get is, 'How many people telecommute at Google?' And our answer is, 'As few as possible.'
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020