Charles Palliser Quotes
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.
Charles Palliser
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst
Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
Mamata Banerjee
The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
Dan Deacon
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben
When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
Barry McGuire
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
Taylor Swift
When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
Warren Farrell
I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
Randy Quaid
I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
Lady Gaga
My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
Kamala Harris
I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.
Daniel Boulud
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.
Caroline Myss
All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
Ernest Hemingway
I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored. But then it occurred to me that musing is a pointless waste of anyone's time, and instead I went off to see if I could find a Baby Ruth candy bar, a far more profitable exercise.
Bill Bryson
I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.
Muhammad Ali
What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
Raghuram Rajan
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.
Charles Palliser
