Patrick deWitt Quotes
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.Patrick deWitt
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
Dan Webster -
The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
Fay Vincent -
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam -
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Umberto Eco -
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
Aaron Sorkin -
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
Jacob Epstein
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
Karin Slaughter -
I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
Vanity -
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Walter Scott -
I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
Jack Levine -
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
Natalie Dormer -
To oppose something is to maintain it.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I've always been extremely physically active.
Danai Gurira -
The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
Queen Victoria -
I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
Mallory Ortberg
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When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/11. I've been writing and illustrating stories in the world post-9/11 since then, watching the world change around me.
Jeff Lemire -
People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.
Angelina Jolie -
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
Iris Johansen -
I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
Gary Speed -
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
Patrick deWitt