Ben Dolnick Quotes
To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.Ben Dolnick
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
Ingrid Newkirk -
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. Forster -
I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
Calvin Trillin -
I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
Gavin Newsom -
I need to meet people to be able to write.
Vikas Swarup -
Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
Orhan Pamuk
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
Man Ray -
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Earl Warren -
The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
Laura Linney -
The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
Candace Bushnell -
I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
Vanessa Kerry
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My brother is really, really slow.
Usain Bolt -
The imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace Stevens -
I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
Samantha Morton -
The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
Edmund Waller -
Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.
Yeardley Smith
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I'm there to support my kids no matter what happens. I just do the best I can, just like anybody else would for their family.
Kris Jenner -
The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
Edmund Morgan -
These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
Patricia Clarkson -
In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.
Jimmy Cliff -
Knowledge is rarely enough to spark change; it takes emotion to bring knowledge to a boil.
Chip Heath -
To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.
Ben Dolnick