Redwing Quotes & Sayings

Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a novelist. He had said "an unhappy childhood." Redwing had enjoyed a fine time growing up, but he wondered if this whole expedition was unfolding more like a novel, and would be blamed on one person, one character, the guy in charge: him. Maybe you got a happy childhood and then an unhappy adulthood, and that's how novels worked. — Gregory Benford

Do it on the radio." - Educating Rita Saved — Connie Willis

Right. Isn't that how science works?" Redwing grinned. "If you don't understand, do an experiment. — Gregory Benford

What's your name, honey?" Frank asked her. "Beth Riley," she said. She could hear footsteps overhead as the agents stomped around her parents' bedroom upstairs. "What's your real name?" he asked. Her skin prickled. "Beth Riley," she said again. — Chelsea Cain

A child's pleasure in listening to stories lies partly in waiting for things he expects to be repeated: situations, phrases, formulas. Just as in poems and songs the rhymes help to create the rhythm, so in prose narrative there are events that rhyme. — Italo Calvino

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes. — Andrew Bird

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could. — Martha Wainwright

A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared. — Ann Coulter