Quotes About Community

That's part of what I remember about seeing the movies that influenced me: the experience of watching them with a crowd and how they react to something.

It's very validating to have people who do what you do react to a song in a cool way.

I love everything about Delhi, mostly the fact that people here never fail to react to music.

Pubs create an environment for people to react, for families, friends to go and meet.

A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.

What matters is that I'm making a connection with people and getting a reaction.

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

Maybe we could think of science as being like a nuclear chain reaction in which people and ideas bounce off each other, and if critical mass is reached, a new field is formed.

It was tough: I had to kiss a man, and I got a mixed reaction from the black community. But I have to be ready to play any role, or I can't call myself an actor.

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.

Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.

I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be interested, no matter where we come from, or who our parents are. It's not my province; it's ours. These questions concern us all.

Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

I'm looking forward to coming to SleuthFest I've heard so many good things about it from my writer friends. I'm looking forward to seeing my buddies and talking to readers who want to know about the way I work.

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.