Charles McCarry Quotes
I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.
Charles McCarry
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
Vicky McClure
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.
Irving Stone
When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
Valerie Plame
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
Gabrielle Zevin
You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
R. A. Salvatore
My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
With the divine Knowledge of Advaita (non-duality) in you, do whatever you wish; for then no evil can ever come out of you.
Ramakrishna
The sophist is concerned with wisdom, not for its own sake, not because he hates the lie in the soul more than anything else, but for the sake of the honor or the prestige that attends wisdom.
Leo Strauss
A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.
Calvin Miller
I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.
Derek Magyar
I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.
Charles McCarry
