Nina Nastasia quotes

I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking.
-- Nina Nastasia

#Writing #Talking #Very Good

I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it. And it's funny, I've started to notice it, I started to see it after a while, that that's kind of a way of writing that I was doing. But I didn't set about to do that.
-- Nina Nastasia

#Writing #Kind

You start to do shows and people come up to me and say, "I wish more people were here, how come more people aren't here?" and that just starts to get a little.
-- Nina Nastasia

#People #Wish #Littles

I'm always shocked by that! I'm not the singer, I'm the songwriter who sings.
-- Nina Nastasia

#Singers #Songwriters #Shocked

[In Europe] they're really interested in you drinking their alcohol and eating their food and showing you around.
-- Nina Nastasia

#Drinking #Europe #Alcohol

I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it.
-- Nina Nastasia

#Writing #Fans #Faces

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.

When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences, some of which may not be as pleasant as I'd like! I know one thing, however. Many viewers may come out of the theater not satisfied, but they won't be able to forget the movie. I know they'll be talking about it during their next dinner. I want them to be a little restless about my movies, and keep trying to find something in them.

I have to say I'm very good on a bike. Maybe the last time I was 5 years old.

Not that I wouldn't have been equally happy to see the old buddies and see it all start up again that way. But this was more of a work situation, and a very good one.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

If you can maintain the diet over a period of time, that's very good. If you're taking statins and you're not following a diet, you could partially undo the effects of statins.