Andrea Barrett quote: "I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us."

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.
ANDREA BARRETT

Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an in...
ANDREA BARRETT

I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to...
ANDREA BARRETT

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social...
ANDREA BARRETT

The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basical...
ANDREA BARRETT

When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and th...
ANDREA BARRETT

In the story I eventually called 'Archangel' and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, worki...
ANDREA BARRETT

By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a ...
ANDREA BARRETT

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
SYD BARRETT

If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for eac...
JACINDA BARRETT

I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like ...
JACINDA BARRETT

Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. ...
BARRETT FOA

But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star...
MAJEL BARRETT

So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 go...
MAJEL BARRETT

The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your p...
MAJEL BARRETT

Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards...
MAJEL BARRETT

We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.
MAJEL BARRETT

When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of...
MAJEL BARRETT

You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out i...
MAJEL BARRETT

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything...
MAJEL BARRETT

I don't think we're wasting people in space.
MAJEL BARRETT

Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
MAJEL BARRETT

You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we want...
MAJEL BARRETT

I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's...
MAJEL BARRETT

My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam Count...
BARRETT FOA

Words and sentences are subject to revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of previ...
BARRETT WENDELL

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has ...
RONA BARRETT

It will be a scramble game. They definitely have a shot to win it all. We're gonna have our work cut...
ADAM BARRETT

It's nice knowing we didn't play our best game and still won. I told the team after the game, 'You b...
ADAM BARRETT

I expect her to have the best four games of her high school career (at state). She's got to carry us...
ADAM BARRETT

She's one of the top point guards in the state.
ADAM BARRETT

She carried us for the first quarter. As a freshman, she doesn't choke. She's just unbelievable for ...
ADAM BARRETT

They just hit shots. We couldn't hit anything. We've got a lot of things to figure out.
ADAM BARRETT

We're a different team without Wilber. We needed Julie to step up and she did. I just told her befor...
ADAM BARRETT

Lincoln played harder. Their athleticism kicked in a little bit. They got us this time, but I'm sure...
ADAM BARRETT

This was a championship game. To beat them at their place was huge. That's what you have to do to co...
ADAM BARRETT

I can't believe that. You don't take a game away like that.
ADAM BARRETT

So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson.
ALICE BARRETT

Professionally, I decided to commit a lot of my time to California because there wasn't a whole lot ...
ALICE BARRETT

It's not an easy thing to be let go.
ALICE BARRETT

It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming...
ALICE BARRETT

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.
ALICE BARRETT

I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.
ALICE BARRETT

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.
ALICE BARRETT

I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.
ALICE BARRETT

Getting fired is hard.
ALICE BARRETT

But this is called show business, not show family.
ALICE BARRETT

The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more ten...
WILLIAM BARRETT

A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many p...
WILLIAM BARRETT

What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a...
WILLIAM BARRETT

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
E.S. BARRETT

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
ETHEL BARRETT

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an...
RONA BARRETT

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.
TOM BARRETT

I'm pleased to have the support of working men and women throughout the state of Wisconsin. And ...
TOM BARRETT

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard th...
SYD BARRETT

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came fr...
JACINDA BARRETT

We believe the spiritual, mental and physical are integrated. If one link is severed, it affects the...
BILL BARRETT

The bank conducted an internal audit, and it showed discrepancies in the general ledger account. He ...
BILL BARRETT

This reduces diversity; it does not increase it. A choice is being eliminated ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬�...
BILL BARRETT

I had never heard of this until now. Maybe it has to do with the rate of snowfall. There was enough ...
BILL BARRETT

As a result of the actions, (Eckstein) entered into agreement to pay the money back, and he has repa...
BILL BARRETT

We can not ignore that there are price pressures in the PC, that is sort of a foregone conclusion, e...
ANDREW BARRETT

I would be very surprised to see this spill over for a prolonged period of time.
ANDREW BARRETT

We ran the numbers, and that was it, ... Consumer advocates would scream, but it wouldn't serve anyo...
ANDREW BARRETT

For (the fourth) quarter, there's just nothing to get excited about. Now, the question is: Where do ...
ANDREW BARRETT

It's going to take a turnaround in the earnings picture, ... I think the upside begins when we get o...
ANDREW BARRETT

Greenspan is raising rates, and he is targeting the consumer. This is a natural reflection of what i...
ANDREW BARRETT

Institutions and the smart money out there has been owning a lot of these higher P/E stocks, to part...
ANDREW BARRETT

Right now there are just too many cross currents out there to make people feel confident enough and ...
ANDREW BARRETT

What you're seeing is these old leaders, which don't have much more downside, come back in favor.
ANDREW BARRETT

It's called the Santa Claus effect, ... The holiday period is traditionally a strong cycle.
ANDREW BARRETT

No, from the standpoint that the coaches didn't feel I was ready yet,
BARRETT GREEN

There's going to be a lot of animosity, you can count on that, ... In the preseason game, there's no...
BARRETT GREEN

Obviously, they had different intentions out there than we did, and it showed. I don't think there w...
BARRETT GREEN

There's going to be a lot of animosity, you can count on that. In the preseason game, there's no que...
BARRETT GREEN

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
SYD BARRETT

'Arnold Layne' just happens to dig dressing up in women's clothing. A lot of people do -...
SYD BARRETT

So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson.
ALICE BARRETT

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.
ALICE BARRETT

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
SYD BARRETT

There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being sil...
BARRETT FOA

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rai...
TOM BARRETT

I just decided that I had to stick with it, do what I needed to do in my classes, and all the coache...
BRANDON BARRETT

I just have to stick with it.
BRANDON BARRETT

It's just fun to be out here playing football again. I'm just out there trying to have fun and get m...
BRANDON BARRETT

It's been a long road.
BRANDON BARRETT

We're beginning with a blank sheet of paper.
BOB BARRETT

I can't stand it when the cold water hits me in the shower.
BOB BARRETT

It's not fair, ... The city needs to look at the policy.
BOB BARRETT

At times we did move the ball. We know what to do within the system. We just have to do a better job...
BOB BARRETT

One thing I will give my offense, we fought hard and picked some things up late in the game,
BOB BARRETT

Our kids competed their tails off,
BOB BARRETT

Our kids competed their tails off, ... We didn't do a great job executing offensively, especially up...
BOB BARRETT

We'll have our hands full there, ... They have a good ball club. I know them from having been in the...
BOB BARRETT

It was devastating, but I know Clint. He's the most optimistic person I know, almost to a fault ... ...
BOB BARRETT

Their commitment to helping people is beyond words. It's amazing that they're coming back.
BOB BARRETT

Getting these individuals involved in skiing and snowboarding greatly impacts their day-to-day funct...
CARA BARRETT

I would really like to see these kids with disabilities be out on the hill skiing and snowboarding a...
CARA BARRETT

Having one-on-one private instruction helps them improve their physical skills and gives them the se...
CARA BARRETT

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, ...
RONA BARRETT

It's not about the length of the posts. It's about the passion.
CAM BARRETT

I'm a real pussy cat -- with an iron tail.
RONA BARRETT

underscores the need for a proactive U.S. competitiveness agenda that promotes research and developm...
CRAIG BARRETT

Clark Foam is now finally out of our system, I think, the whole debacle and the challenges it brough...
BARRY BARRETT

[Fitzgerald's appointment] eliminated the risks of the old independent counsel statute, and it's wor...
JOHN BARRETT

Many of the problems with the U.S. healthcare system were exposed after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ...
CRAIG BARRETT

As mayor of Milwaukee, I've had many developers come and many businesses come and have asked for...
TOM BARRETT

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.
TOM BARRETT

Paul Willett's our coach. There's no truth to the rumors (of him being replaced) at all. It just mig...
CHARLIE BARRETT

Vintage Maddux. He's hitting his spots well. When he struck out Tony Womack, it was as hard a fastba...
MICHAEL BARRETT

What leads the charge is the generals, not the infantry.
ANDREW BARRETT

Max is absolutely livid that these companies have not followed through with their promises. We have ...
BARRETT KAISER

Getting the 60 signatures is ongoing. Max and (Sen. Arlen) Specter (R-Pa.) are continuing to push it...
BARRETT KAISER

Our time on earth is short, but we are ignorant enough to fret over little decisions. Take time to e...
ELIZABETH BARRETT

I wasn't always this introverted.
SYD BARRETT

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your lif...
RONA BARRETT

It takes the legality out of the issue for them. I think it's a great move for IBM.
ANDREW BARRETT

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not an...
SYD BARRETT

We're in a strong economic position. A pre-election binge would be inflationary. You want fiscal pol...
ALAN BARRETT

It always surprises us. We think that avian flu will be the next emerging disease. My guess is somet...
ALAN BARRETT

The one that has us all scared is Rift Valley fever.
ALAN BARRETT

I had to settle down and do my job. Once I settled down, I felt good about it.
DAVID BARRETT

He's still concerned the administration could sneak this through in any number of ways. It's a long ...
BARRETT KAISER

If we are to redeem any part of our world from the brute march of power, we may have to begin as mod...
WILLIAM BARRETT

The path of specialization leads away from the ordinary and concrete acts of understanding in terms ...
WILLIAM BARRETT

The Greek word for “I know,” oida, is the perfect of the verb “to see” and means “I have s...
WILLIAM BARRETT

We really know time, says Heidegger, because we know we are going to die. Without this passionate re...
WILLIAM BARRETT

To the other person, who looks at me from the outside, I seem an object, a thing; my subjectivity wi...
WILLIAM BARRETT

To be rational is not the same as to be reasonable.
WILLIAM BARRETT

We cannot define ourselves without negating the alternatives that we do not become.
WILLIAM BARRETT

Heidegger’s philosophy is neither atheism nor theism, but a description of the world from which Go...
WILLIAM BARRETT

For the thinker, as for the artist, what counts in life is not the number of rare and exciting adven...
WILLIAM BARRETT

If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human ...
WILLIAM BARRETT

Faith can no more be described to a thoroughly rational mind than the idea of colors can be conveyed...
WILLIAM BARRETT

When faith is full, it dares to express its anger, for faith is the openness of the whole man toward...
WILLIAM BARRETT

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.
WILLIAM BARRETT

Certainly, we can no longer look upon the canon of Western art - Greco-Roman as revived, extended, a...
WILLIAM BARRETT

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe...
WILLIAM BARRETT

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.
WILLIAM BARRETT

For man to enter history as the rational animal, it was necessary for him to be convinced that the o...
WILLIAM BARRETT

David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go...
WILLIAM BARRETT

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the sourc...
WILLIAM BARRETT

If a man has learned to think, no matter what he may think about, he is always thinking of his own d...
WILLIAM BARRETT

Man's feeling of homelessness, of alienation has been intensified in the midst of a bureaucratized, ...
WILLIAM BARRETT

That's a lot of the job of the driver and the car owner, working to keep morale high. If those drive...
STANTON BARRETT

Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back ...
BARRETT FOA

He's out (on the football field) like he's on a kamikaze mission. He's going down looking for somebo...
DANNY BARRETT

We have recovered from those missteps and the machine is firing on all eight cylinders in terms of n...
CRAIG BARRETT

We let them get belligerent and antagonistic. ... As closely as we can, we try to replicate what a r...
JOHN BARRETT

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.
SYD BARRETT

Our fans have been waiting for a big splash, they have been waiting for the news. If today wasn't bi...
DANNY BARRETT

This is something that I want to see happen,
TOM BARRETT

We have not done a good enough job just getting Milwaukee on the radar screen, ... People just don't...
TOM BARRETT

Oh, yeah, ... I can do that.
TOM BARRETT

Four quarters both ways! Are you up for that?
TOM BARRETT

There were a lot of things we did over the summer to help us recover, ... It's good to be together p...
TOM BARRETT

Quite candidly, I think there are sufficient dollars to do both.
TOM BARRETT

It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a...
TOM BARRETT

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.
TOM BARRETT

From our standpoint, he hasn't been here all week so we had to put him on either suspended or disabl...
DANNY BARRETT

Max worked way too hard to secure these dollars to let a bunch of bureaucrats get in the way.
BARRETT KAISER

I don't think we've had a good game since we've been here (at the Dome). We're bound to have one goo...
ADAM BARRETT

Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come o...
BARRETT FOA

[Green said yesterday he assumed he would not play until Oct. 16 at Dallas, with a bye week followin...
BARRETT GREEN

It's frustrating, because I know I can help this team, help us stop the run. But coach is doing what...
BARRETT GREEN

They're going to get hit. Hard.
BARRETT GREEN

He's just a strong back. It's hard to tackle him with an arm tackle. You see on film repeatedly he r...
BARRETT GREEN

But yes, from the perspective that I felt I could have helped this team. We obviously won, but I thi...
BARRETT GREEN

I got to recolor designs -- which means they gave me a product and I edited it.
AMANDA BARRETT

I definitely felt prepared with what I had, even if not more capable than others.
AMANDA BARRETT

The designers just go crazy. Last year Sean John won the award, but he is still so down to earth. He...
AMANDA BARRETT

I felt better within 10 days. My diarrhea started to disappear; the bloating started to disappear. M...
KATIE BARRETT

They'll keep starlings from building nests, too.
MARK BARRETT

Jesus confronted many of the important issues of His time. He went into the temple, taught the New T...
ZECHARIAH BARRETT

Day and night. Give and take. But never to die. Each have their time.
ZECHARIAH BARRETT

The increased reliability and capability ... of that particular operating system should allow Micros...
CRAIG BARRETT

We keep track of the number of hits. Starting three weeks ago, we started to get hundreds of thousan...
RICHARD BARRETT

I think with Jared in the lineup it would give the other guys a better chance to win their matches. ...
BARRETT WOLF

I've had my eyes on that match in the schedule the whole season. There would be nothing better then ...
BARRETT WOLF

The kid I played against was a complete head case. He was questioning all my calls, trying to get in...
BARRETT WOLF

We didn't really have a chance to practice together this week because of [College of General Studies...
BARRETT WOLF

It was a back and forth game. Both teams made some mistakes which allowed us to put runs on the boar...
BARRETT WILLIAMS

The problems we had were their guards did such a good job defending our other guards it made it diff...
BARRETT WILLIAMS

Brad is a pretty special player. We had to try to come up with something new because the first time ...
BARRETT WILLIAMS

I started getting a little nervous. I'm telling myself, 'Don't mess up anything.' So then I end up m...
BARRETT MILAM

There's some good scores, so it should be a real good finish.
BARRETT MILAM

I was shaking a little bit before I signed the card. I didn't know if I was in a dream or not.
BARRETT MILAM

The session isn't over. There are plenty of things in the pipeline.
BARRETT MARSON

A key in a compromise proposal is to make some movement. There appears to be little movement in the ...
BARRETT MARSON

A driver can be distracted by any number of things. We do not ban eating in cars. We do not ban chan...
BARRETT MARSON

Right now, it's like there's a lot of duct tape holding it together. It works just well enough for p...
BARRETT LYON

From what I understood, he and a bunch of his friends hung out in chat rooms, and he was being hired...
BARRETT LYON

Those are the scary ones.
BARRETT LYON

We saw the extortion racket take off first, but now it is a mixture. You are seeing extortion; you a...
BARRETT LYON

At Beaver Creek there's a lot of stuff we can just ski cut.
BARRETT LANGENDOERFER

We can't get every nook and cranny, but we try.
BARRETT LANGENDOERFER

Everybody likes to blow stuff up.
BARRETT LANGENDOERFER

They really have been known to be at the top with customer experience and they have fallen down rece...
BARRETT LADD

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.

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Andrea Barrett

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.

Andrea Barrett

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