Quotes about american-author
american-author bit crops factors love mutual trivia
Our mutual love of movie trivia factors occasionally in the 'Bone' character. It crops up a bit more in the 'Maestro' character. Robert Asprin
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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
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Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat. Mark Twain
american-author reminded specific
Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians. Jhumpa Lahiri
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Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try.
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Playing football is obviously very strenuous. It's exhausting. You have to try very hard in football. But there's no heroic risk involved. Gregg Easterbrook
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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
american-author disguised publishers reluctant
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
american-author ideas milieu tells
We live now in a milieu that tells us anything goes, everything is okay, and all ideas and behaviours have merit. That's hogwash, and you know it. Tammy Bruce
american-author disliked half harvard leave princeton spent year
I went to Harvard because I disliked Princeton so much - I spent a year and a half there. I didn't leave Harvard early; I actually finished. Harry Mathews
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I think they completely overreacted by firing me, but in my mind I think this coming a month after Rush Limbaugh had a lot to do with it.
american-author boost detective people puzzles sf sure
I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.
american-author essay hardly means room suggest tame though ways
I think there may be ways to tame the organizational beast, though I have hardly room in this essay to do more than suggest that such means exist.
american-author enjoying far finding good life since spent study
Just finding it, and as far as that went, I spent a good part of my life enjoying the study of the ship, ever since I was a little kid. Walter Lord
american-author began book explained principles
That was when I began to get an idea: to write a book that explained the principles of Taoism through Winnie-the-Pooh, and explained Winnie-the-Pooh through the principles of Taoism. Benjamin Hoff
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That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all. Michael Chabon
american-author based capitalist conditions differ production social society
It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.
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I think that it's an extraordinary opportunity for science for the first time to learn about the positive potential of these traditions. Daniel Goleman
american-author given projects three
Lately, I find that I'm working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work. James Patterson
american-author build people pleased rather sensitive time
I was very touched, pleased and at the same time rather saddened by how sensitive the young people are to the need to build up a future.
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I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill. John Shirley
american-author career earlier influenced parts writers
I think probably in the earlier parts of my career I was influenced by writers such as Hawthorne and Melville - the American classics. Russell Banks
american-author anybody certainly emulate others people pick
I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me. Marguerite Young
american-author pain
I still think you are a pain in the neck. Dashiell Hammett
american-author discover far good impressive others qualities
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
american-author collective devoted feels web
I'm such a devoted web user, myself, that it feels important to me to have a presence, to be a part of that whole collective enterprise.
american-author capable easily
I don't have much vanity. I just know what I do. I just do because I'm capable of doing it and do it easily without any pretentiousness. Jack Vance
american-author contend office time work
Ideally, I'd like to work part time at the bookstore. That would give me more time to contend with all the office work of writing. Kate DiCamillo
american-author oil year
I can go a year before an oil change. David Harris
american-author escapes great life reading remember suppose
I can't remember a time, really, when I haven't been a writer. Reading and writing were the two great escapes of my life and I suppose they still are. Robert Cormier
american-author time
I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.
american-author fit four happened maybe plot somehow sort
For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.
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I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. Robert Fitzgerald