Kathleen Rooney quotes
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“I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.”
-- Kathleen RooneySource : Source: therumpus.net
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“As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.”
-- Kathleen RooneySource : Source: therumpus.net
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“Not to give too big of a spoiler, but I never find myself thinking, for example, Oh, remember that crazy time I stumbled on that closeted Republican candidate's sex tape?”
-- Kathleen RooneySource : Source: therumpus.net
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“The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel.”
-- Kathleen RooneySource : Source: therumpus.net
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“In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.”
-- Kathleen RooneySource : Source: therumpus.net
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“Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.”
-- Kathleen RooneySource : Source: therumpus.net
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“If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear.”
-- Kathleen RooneySource : Source: therumpus.net
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“The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.”
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Source : "Adam Savage on becoming a maker". www.wired.com. July 4, 2012.
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“Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.”
Source : B. E. Carpenter, Alan Mathison Turing, Michael Woodger (1986). “A.M. Turing's ACE report of 1946 and other papers”, The MIT Press
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“A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.”
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