Brad Meltzer Quotes

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Brad Meltzer

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• I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Change

• 'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • World
  • Book
  • Alone

• The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • You
  • Kind
  • Same

• I am much more interested in the process than results.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Process
  • Results
  • Interested

• The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Children
  • Man
  • Hand

• I was constantly being told I shouldn't talk so much about how I was feeling. They seemed to think I was giving too much away to my competitors. Showing signs of weakness. But I've always thought that was rubbish.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road.

  

  Kaskade
  • Road
  • Travel
  • Year

• Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know plenty of long-standing happy couples who slept together right away, spent hours yakking on the phone, split checks down the middle, and lived together for years before the wedding.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Age
  • Learn
  • Resilience

• We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Country
  • Think
  • Investment

• Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Human
  • Values
  • motivation

• Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • War
  • Air
  • Conflict

• The majority of my work is about preparation.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • Work
  • Preparation
  • Majority

• People always make war when they say they love peace.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Love
  • War

• If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is will power. You can will it into being if you just believe that you are going to make a movie.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • May

• The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • True
  • Forever

• There's a killer on the roadHis brain is squirming like a toad.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Brain

• Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

  

  Kin Hubbard
  • People

• From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.

  

  La India
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Enemy
  • Painting

• We need a new leader in Congress who will represent the issues that Donald Trump ran on because they were the winning issues.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly
  • Winning
  • Trump

• That life had been one without excitement, with no adventure. It had been too safe. All the elements that made it up were right there before his eyes, and nothing new could ever be expected. It was like, he had once thought, a little plastic boat that would sail on forever, without incident, until it finally sank, which would be a secret relief to all.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Life
  • Up
  • Eyes

• Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.

  

  Tommy Davidson
  • Night
  • Comedy
  • Needs

• Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

  

  Brad Meltzer