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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think everyone is equally haunted by high school, but I also don't think it's unusual to be.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 'Gender Studies,' I wrote that story in May and June of 2016. People have said to me, 'Oh, it's a political allegory,' and I think, 'Sure.' The political stuff is definitely there. But that's why I like fiction; there can be lots of different things going on, and it's all intertwined, and you can't separate out what's in what category.
- Invincible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.
- Nov 07, 2020
No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smell is so powerful, you know. My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.
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- Nov 07, 2020