Marisha Pessl Quotes

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

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• I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • You
  • Same

• I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Right
  • Half

• Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Age
  • Guitar

• In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Time
  • Success
  • Respect

• Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Music
  • Moments

• It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Time
  • Day
  • Dignity

• I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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  • Three

• Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.

  

  Becca Fitzpatrick
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Myself

• I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • Childhood
  • Blessing

• My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'

  

  Oliver North
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mom

• All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Precept

• Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the mostMust mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• I think George Foreman must have gained about 350 lbs and is slow as ever.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Think
  • Ever
  • Slow

• I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • America
  • Movie

• I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • Time
  • Writing