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When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.
Vera Nazarian
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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Gentle
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Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.
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I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.
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Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.
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Here is where I like to burst in as a writer, to take one strong sensory detail or image and instead of enhancing it or directing attention to it by shouting about it, I simply take it away.
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Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.
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When I was a little kid back in Moscow, Russia, I've always thought I would become an artist or a folk dancer or an astronomer. In fact, if you'd asked me then about a life of solitary writing I would have said, Oh how boring! Imagine, to sit at a desk all day and just write.
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Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.
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However I will never forget what Marion [Zimmer Bradley] did for me by accepting that first story from a stupid enthusiastic kid.
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I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.
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