James Rollins Quotes

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.

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• I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Up
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• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Life
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• I'm really obsessed with the past.

  

  Fisher Stevens
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• I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Future
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• I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
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• Writing is agony. I hate it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Hate
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• I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
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  • Love
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• Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Think
  • Past
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• In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Past

• Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

  

  Paracelsus
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  • Now
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• I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Writing
  • Guy
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• I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
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• The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

  

  Aberjhani
  • History
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• I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.

  

  Halsey
  • Writing
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• I love writing shorter fiction.

  

  Matthew Pearl
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• The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • World
  • Great
  • Hope

• The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Passion
  • Philosopher
  • Chemist

• If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. If a friendship makes me love Hugh more, then I can trust that friendship. If it thrusts itself between us, then it should be cut out, and quickly.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Trust
  • Friendship

• I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.

  

  James Rollins
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Past