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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it's weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my writing changed when I put 'the' in front of my titles. It had more command.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they chose to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an experience and learning. I don't think you can begrudge someone that.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we writers are very superstitious. We don't know why it's working when it's working, so we attach cause and effect.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in - I think that would be a terrible book.
- Watching
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think watching TV has influenced my books, but I don't think writing TV has.
- Crime Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am in no way a confident person - except when it comes to what I'm writing. It's just like, this is what I can do, and I have what I think is a pretty strong voice, for better or worse. It's the style I like to write in.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love kale. Genuinely. I really am glad that I have a platform to express that. I think a good raw kale salad is always just a meaty mouth feel. I also really like kelp noodle pasta with a little kale on top.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'd like to play more happy roles because I haven't done too many of those. I think I'd like to do an action film; something with a harness would be fun.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to say 'Reign' is the '24' of the pre-Renaissance. I think we're going to take a lot of liberties with history, as well as extend it over a longer period of time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020