Owen King Quotes

I wasn't good at the sciences; I wasn't a good enough athlete. The only thing I could do was mow lawns. So I thought that writing or teaching was what I wanted to do.

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• Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Think
  • Marriage

• Most importantly, you have to stay true to yourself as well as those fans who made you who you are as an athlete.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • True
  • Yourself
  • Athlete

• I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Marketing

• I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Good
  • Job
  • Dad

• Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Expressing

• During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Good
  • Important
  • School

• In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Always

• I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Night

• I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Why
  • Want

• Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Hair

• I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

  

  J. Cole
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Myself

• You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Good
  • American
  • Nice

• I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Time
  • Good
  • Perspective

• I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you're a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• Why is partying and having a good time bad?

  

  Tara Reid
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Good
  • Honesty

• I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Amazing

• Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Art
  • Why

• I thought to myself, 'All right, let's take a look at your resume. You have no financial background. You have basketball, that's what you have, for your whole life.'

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Life
  • Financial
  • Basketball

• Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.

  

  Bud Abbott
  • Team

• I wasn't good at the sciences; I wasn't a good enough athlete. The only thing I could do was mow lawns. So I thought that writing or teaching was what I wanted to do.

  

  Owen King
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Athlete