Nan Quotes
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Nan Quotes & Sayings
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You can't run from your roots.
— Stewart O'Nan
This was Jonan's boat. She had helped Nan Seller dose his entire crew against the annual diarrhea outbreak known as the winter runs
— Sarah Zettel
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
— Nan Goldin
One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.
— Nan Fairbrother
Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.
— Stewart O'Nan
Nan is the mortar that holds the tiles of their family together.
— Wm. Paul Young
The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly.
— Kate Reardon
Pa gen lape nan tet, si pa gen lape nan vant (there is no peace in the head if there is no peace in the stomach).
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.
— Nan Kempner
I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.
— Nan Kempner
I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.
— Stewart O'Nan
The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets.
— Stewart O'Nan
It's not rocket science, Nan. You show someone they matter to you - do whatever it takes to show that.
— Huntley Fitzpatrick
It is worth ascending unexiting heights if for nothing else than to see the big ones from nearer their own level.
— Nan Shepherd
I think the wrong things are kept private
— Nan Goldin
I think the golden age of couture had some of the most incredible customers: women like Nan Kempner and all the icons.
— Nicolas Ghesquiere
It's a grand thing, to get leave to live
— Nan Shepherd
What he values is a task that, demanding of him all he has and is, absorbs and so releases him entirely.
— Nan Shepherd
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
— Nan Fairbrother
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
— Nan Fairbrother
I'm drunk when it comes to clothes.
— Nan Kempner
He was a Stark of Winterfell, and who can say? Mayhaps his name was Brandon. Mayhaps he slept in this very bed in this very room
— George R R Martin
Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
— Nan Hayworth
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.
— Stewart O'Nan
The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.
— Stewart O'Nan
Speaking to bloggers on a daily basis.
— Nan Aron
Susan Boynton mug. "I will," Birdie said, smiling. "Haven't you already read this?" he asked,
— Nan Rossiter
We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company ...
— Nan Fairbrother
My Nan had a plastic hip put in, but I thought she should have replaced it with a Slinky, 'cause if she fell down the stairs again ...
— Steve Williams
My nan tells me to eat her fish balls and not drink alcohol. I'd rather have the fish balls.
— Jess Glynne
Leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
— Nan Fairbrother
Where there is life, Nan used to say, there is hope.
— Sabaa Tahir
Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.
— Nan Fairbrother
I tell people all the time I want to be buried naked. I know there will be a store where I'm going.
— Nan Kempner
Am I such a slave as that? Dependent on a man to complete me! I thought I couldn't be anything without him- I can be my own creator!
— Nan Shepherd
If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.
— Nan Fairbrother
All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
— Stewart O'Nan
If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.
— Stewart O'Nan
She's 80 my nan, what do you want for your birthday? "SHREDDER!! GET ME A SHREDDER!!", what do you want a shredder for? "IDENTITY THEFT!!".
— Russell Howard
We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
— Nan Hayworth
Happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.
— Nan Fairbrother
I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead.
— Jimmy Carr
These tracks give to winter hill walking a distinctive pleasure. One is companioned, though not in time.
— Nan Shepherd
I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
— Nan Goldin
I've always been a big reader.
— Stewart O'Nan
The urgent crowds out the essential.
— Nan Fairbrother
Thinking of the little creature dying in her
— Nan Sweet
I don't have any babies or ambition. I have it all!
— Nan Little
I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
— Nan Goldin
My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.
— Sarah Waters
Walking in mist tests not only individual self-discipline, but the best sort of interplay between persons.
— Nan Shepherd
Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all womenall people, finally
complicated? — Stewart O'Nan
Mack likes to say that they all got their good looks from him, ... cuz Nan still has hers.
— Wm. Paul Young
The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.
— Nan Fairbrother
We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?
— Nan Fairbrother
Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts.
— Nan Robertson
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.
— Stewart O'Nan
The best part of a party is getting dressed to go.
— Nan Kempner
Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
— Nan Fairbrother
Be careful with your knives baby, use them before anyone can use them against you. Nan-The Otherside
— Ashley Jeffery
Somewhere in this latest humiliation there was a lesson in self-reliance. He'd failed so completely that he'd become his own man again.
— Stewart O'Nan
I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.
— Stewart O'Nan
What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa?
— Stewart O'Nan
The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?
— Stewart O'Nan
We were watching telly the night Nan burnt the house down.
— Celine Kiernan
The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected ...
— Nan Fairbrother
NaN isn't equal to anything, not even itself, so,
— Eric Freeman
Children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
— Nan Fairbrother
In September dawns I hardly breathe - I am an image in a ball of glass. The world is suspended there, and I in it.
— Nan Shepherd
Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.
— Nan Fairbrother
Anyone who says it's easy to self-publish a book is either lying or doing a shitty job.
— Nan McCarthy
No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.
— Stewart O'Nan