Creator Quote by Joyce Maynard Download Open image “I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.” — Joyce Maynard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creator Melodrama Opera Realistic Soap Soap opera Thinking Writing
“there is an osmosis from fiction to reality, a constant contamination which distorts the truth behind both and fuzzes the telling distinctions in life itself, categorizing real situations and feelings by a set of rules largely culled from the most hoary fictional clichés, the most familiar and received nonsense. Hence the soap operas, and those who try to live their… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share
I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
If I'm doing a daily soap I would like my character to drive the narrative. — Rupali Ganguly Copy Share Image
To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap. — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“It’s like life: sometimes the littlest thing turns out to be the most important.” — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women,… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness. — Eliza Bisbee Duffey Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
every being is unique.god neva creates carbon copies,he alys creates originals.he is truly a creator.he neva repeats.but man goes on living in imitation.we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally,… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share
Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The goal of the Creator is for each entity to make a conscious choice to again seek Oneness, out of our own free will - not because anyone else forced us to. If we are told what to do and what to believe, then we have learned nothing and will not make any progress. Perhaps the single most basic realization… — David Wilcock Copy Share
John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality. That's why I regard the music he played as spiritual music -- John's way of getting closer and closer to the Creator. — Albert Ayler Copy Share
Sometimes you get the sense that the Creator is getting to that point of "Yeah, we might have to reboot." — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image