Quotes about american-author
american-author face sunshine
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow. Helen Keller
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Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. That's how I feel about it. Michael Chabon
american-author graduate prefer princeton students taught teaching
I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs. Russell Banks
american-author form modern rule
Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. Mary McCarthy
american-author start
But at my age, you start to get tired. Mickey Spillane
american-author asked exactly instinct knowing though
I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story. Richard Grant
american-author goes science senseless
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
american-author finest iliad literature piece possibly respect
I have more respect for The Iliad now than I've ever had, and I've always thought it was possibly the finest piece of literature there was. Dan Simmons
american-author far hears however loses man music pace perhaps step
If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away. Henry David Thoreau
american-author dialogue military talks
I don't think you can say that the talks between us and the military have not yet resumed. I think you could say that dialogue has not yet started.
american-author hour million moving six
If a book's moving well, or I was interrupted over six million times through the day, I'll usually go back and write for another hour or two.
american-author aspect enjoyed
I enjoyed the "people" aspect of sales, but the haggling, the rinding, the tedium... thanks, but I'll keep on writing if I'm permitted. Raymond E. Feist
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Give that to me so I can get out of here. Tavis Smiley
american-author god levels metaphor simple
God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. Joseph Campbell
american-author apathy cure found human remedy worst
We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
american-author people
We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough. Keith Miller
american-author begin defects engaging gradually length rather seem staring time whenever
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. Margaret Halsey
american-author knew line man occurred written
I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal. Laura Hillenbrand
american-author crowded rather sit solitude velvet
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
american-author good happy stop trying
If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton
american-author charles ladies
If the Tate premises, ladies and gentlemen, did not symbolize the establishment to Charles Manson, no residence, no premises, ever would. Vincent Bugliosi
american-author figure midwest ought voice
I always figure I can have the Midwest one way or the other. Because it's my background, it ought to be a voice that comes easily.
american-author art conceive form movies room
He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own. Richard Schickel
american-author care divide full grief joy somebody value
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain
american-author appears common divine enjoys fine statement takes turns twice
He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
american-author seems whatever
Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
american-author films services sort stick
Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me. Kevin Williamson
american-author girl great older stop
It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman.
american-author atmosphere director help morality poses question terms took trying vision
It's a morality film, and it poses the question "What would you do?" I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.
american-author beauty bright four jock kids loved queen wonderful
What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.
american-author destroys liked preserve stock
And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.
american-author goes notion
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. Lynn Abbey
american-author holes tend
When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise. Ron Chernow