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Like many writers, I lived inside of books as a child.

Like many writers, I lived inside of books as a child.
– Roxane Gay

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  1. Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books. – Roxane Gay
  2. I knew I was in love with The Hunger Games when I did not want to get off the treadmill – Roxane Gay
  3. Love your friends’ kids even if you don’t want or like children. Just do it. – Roxane Gay
  4. I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all. – Roxane Gay
  5. … just one more reminder that the rules are always different for girls, no matter who they are and no matter what they do. – Roxane Gay
  6. This tension-the idea that there is a right way to be a woman, a right way to be the most essential woman- is ongoing and pervasive. – Roxane Gay
  7. I no longer want to believe these problems are too complex for us to make sense of them. – Roxane Gay
  8. When you can’t find someone to follow, find a way to lead by example. – Roxane Gay
  9. Better is not good enough, and it’s a shame that anyone would be willing to settle for so little. – Roxane Gay
  10. On the scale of relevance, public approval or disapproval of a woman’s choices should not merit measure. – Roxane Gay
  11. If people cannot be flawed in fiction there’s no place left for us to be human. – Roxane Gay
  12. Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were. – Roxane Gay
  13. Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were. – Roxane Gay
  14. To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance. – Roxane Gay
  15. Racism doesn’t care about respectability, wealth, education, or status – Roxane Gay
  16. I am quite content to be in my thirties, and nothing affirms that more than being around people in their late teens and early twenties. – Roxane Gay
  17. I don’t put that pressure on myself (to write every day), but I do tend to write every day. It’s not pressure-”it’s pressure release. – Roxane Gay
  18. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
  19. Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
  20. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. – Neil Gaiman
  21. I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I have lived in books. – Garon Whited
  22. Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
  23. Don’t put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. – Carolyn Byers Ruch
  24. There’s a fine line between child-like -“ learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff -“ and being child-ish. – Robin Hoyle
  25. Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. – Ann Douglas
  26. People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them. – Joe Newman
  27. When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists. – Marilynne Robinson
  28. Some writers aren’t writers, they are mere escapees’ and refugees’ on an exile from the jungle of thoughts. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  29. Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language. – Jamie L Harding
  30. Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it. – Ron Brackin
  31. The people I’ve known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers. – John Gardner
  32. I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn’t say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. – Sylvia Plath
  33. I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn’t say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. – Sylvia Plath
  34. Writers are writing in every corner of the globe.Writers are writing, moreover, in rich countries and poor countries alike. – Minae Mizumura
  35. Are writers the torchbearers of humanity? It’s a romantic idea, but it’s complete rubbish. We writers are the crocodiles in the river. – Pasi Ilmari Jskelinen
  36. Basically, writers write because they have something to say…Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world… – Virginia Alison
  37. Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention. – Gary Reilly
  38. The only difference between writers and people who don’t write is that writers aren’t afraid to display their demons. – Carla H Krueger
  39. All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. – Thomas Swick
  40. I don’t think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions. – Paul Haggis

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