#pia

The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by how much kids long to see themselves in stories. To see their identities and perspectives—their avatars—on the page. Not as issues to be addressed or as icons for social commentary, but simply as people who get to do cool things in amazing worlds. Yes, all the “issue” books are great and have a place in literature, but it's a different and wildly joyous gift to find yourself on the pages of an entertainment, experiencing the thrills and chills of a world more adventurous than our own. And when you see that as a writer, you quickly realize that you don't want to be the jerk who says to a young reader, “Sorry, kid. You don't get to exist in story; you're too different.” You don't want to be part of our present dystopia that tells kids that if they just stopped being who they are they could have a story written about them, too. That's the role of the bad guy in the dystopian stories, right? Given a choice, I'd rather be the storyteller who says every kid can have a chance to star. - posted at Kirkus Review in post "Straight-Laced Dystopias ↗

— Paolo Bacigalupi

#lgbtq #minorities #representation #teens #writing

Home is pretty utopian. ↗

— Scott Adams

#pretty #utopian

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in. ↗

— Mose Allison

#classical #classical composers #composers #different #doin

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring. ↗

— Tori Amos

#compared #feel #getting #occurring #passage

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. ↗

— Russell Baker

#masses #opiate

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#classical guitar #guitar #i #piano #play

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#closer #comes #concepts #eternal #eternal peace

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun. ↗

— Tori Amos

#female #fun #good #me #most

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. ↗

— Tori Amos

#first #half #i #piano #sat

Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#coast #course #drums #father #guitars