Chet Williamson Quotes

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.

Chet Williamson

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• When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Time
  • Place
  • Paths

• I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Way
  • Right

• Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • You
  • Will
  • Too Much

• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Parents
  • Painful

• The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Religion
  • Happiness

• I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Done
  • Character
  • Influence

• Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Like
  • Well

• I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Government
  • End
  • Plan

• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Picture

• I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • End
  • Doing The Right Thing

• Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • Three
  • Pillars

• Is now the time to legalize prostitution?

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Time
  • Now
  • Legalize

• Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Always
  • Little
  • Ever

• In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Important
  • Women
  • Political

• I wasn't really using Twitter before 'Pan Am.' It was a good way to promote the show and be with the viewers on Sunday and be available to them and take questions.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • Questions
  • Sunday

• My dad would take me deer hunting with him, which was pretty traumatic - 'Bambi' was one of my favorite movies.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Dad

• The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.

  

  John Doolittle
  • World
  • Power
  • Desire

• One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thought I ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, '6,' and he said, '3.' I think it was his way of telling me that I needed to get out and really attack life.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Life
  • Car
  • Summer

• Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Men
  • Wisdom
  • Teaches

• In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.'

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Mother

• Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.

  

  Chet Williamson