W. P. Kinsella Quotes

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

W. P. Kinsella

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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

Jacky Ickx
- Up
- Time
- Small
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

Zane Grey
- Dark
- Magic
- Mood
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

Parker Posey
- People
- Heart
- Think
When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

Garrison Keillor
- Time
- Long
- Done
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

Mae West
- Up
- Tied
- Likely
I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

Samira Wiley
- Up
- Character
- Job